Eastern Europe

The Guardian: The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

A senior member of Nigel Farage’s parliamentary group staff in Brussels was known for making trips to the Russian embassy in Belgium and was accused …
The Guardian

The Moscow Times: ‘Crimean bridge’ tops online vote to name Kremlin’s mega-project

Online voters decided to name Russia’s multibillion-dollar bridge between the annexed Crimean peninsula and mainland Russia the “Crimean Bridge” Dec. …
The Moscow Times

BBC: The town that disappeared

Across Russia, hundreds of small towns have been abandoned in the past 20 years. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost jobs and homes after their …
BBC

New York Times: CIA helped thwart terrorist attack in Russia, Kremlin says

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin called President Trump on Dec. 17 to thank him for the work of the Central Intelligence Agency in helping prevent …
New York Times

Reuters: Venezuela gives Russia’s Rosneft gas field concessions

MOSCOW – Venezuela has awarded licenses to a unit of Russian oil major Rosneft (ROSN.MM) to develop two offshore gas fields, Rosneft said in a …
Reuters

Associated Press: Thousands rally in Pakistan against Trump’s Jerusalem move

KARACHI — Thousands of Islamists have rallied in two major cities in Pakistan to condemn U.S. President Donald Trump for declaring Jerusalem Israel’s …
Associated Press

Reuters: In Syria, Russia securing position as Assad presses war

BEIRUT — With the map of Syria’s conflict decisively redrawn in President Bashar al-Assad’s favour, his Russian allies want to convert military gains …
Reuters

Financial Times: Russia and the US vie for centre stage

Over the past 25 years, Americans have come to think of their country as the world’s indispensable nation. Having won the cold war, the US was …
Financial Times

RFE/RL: 3 militants reported killed in Russia’s Daghestan

Russian authorities say three alleged militants have been killed in a counterterrorism operation in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan. Read more …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Associated Press: Johnson says Russia’s hostility to UK and West as bad as at the end of Cold War

Russia has not been so hostile to the UK and the West since the end of the Cold War, Boris Johnson has said, as he prepares to meet his counterpart in …
Associated Press

BBC: Lawyer says Mueller improperly obtained emails

A lawyer for a group set up to help Donald Trump’s transition to the White House has accused special counsel Robert Mueller of unlawfully obtaining …
BBC

Polygraph: Why Putin says he has no strong rivals

“Why do we seem to have vocal and proactive opposition members in this country but they do not really provide any serious competition to the incumbent …
Polygraph

112.ua: Children accepted into pioneer movement, sing ‘Give us Stalin back’ in occupied Crimea

In occupied Sevastopil, children sang a song called Give us Stalin back for the 138th anniversary since the birth of Joseph Stalin, according …
112.ua

Washington Post: Judge signals release of ex-Trump chair Paul Manafort home under curfew and GPS monitoring

A federal judge Friday said a bail package has been put together that would release former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort from home confinement …
Washington Post

Agence France-Presse: Russia warns against fresh preconditions for US-North Korea talks

MOSCOW – Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov on Saturday (Dec 16) warned of a risk of escalation after Washington toughened its stance on …
Agence France-Presse

Reuters: Bosnian, Russian gas firms to form a joint venture

SARAJEVO – Bosnian gas distributor Gas-Res and Russian oil and gas company Gazprom SPG agreed on Saturday to form a joint venture that will build a …
Reuters

Al Jazeera: Life in Russia’s secret nuclear city

Human rights activist Nadezhda Kutepova first realised there was something different about the town where she lived when she was on a school trip …
Al Jazeera

Polygraph: Vladimir Putin repeats already fact-checked claims

“There is no Russian army on the territory of Donbas but there have been created military-police formations, ready to repulse an offensive against …
Polygraph
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