Eastern Europe

Voice of America: Kremlin vows to defend Russian oligarch who is under arrest in France

Russia said Wednesday it will make every effort to defend Russian billionaire businessman and Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who was arrested in France …
Voice of America

Associated Press: Russia pulls basketball World Cup bid, blames negative image

MOSCOW — Russia has withdrawn a bid to host the 2023 basketball World Cup, saying that international criticism of the country’s athletes was to blame …
Associated Press

Navalny says ECHR takes up his appeal against new sentence in Kirovles case

MOSCOW – Opposition activist Alexei Navalny said the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided to consider his appeal against the new judgment …
Interfax-Ukraine

New York Post: Russian bots target FCC in attempt to get net neutrality repealed

Russian hackers are using New Yorkers’ stolen identities to get net neutrality repealed — and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the …
New York Post

Hromadske Radio: Can Nord Stream II and the new rules

In 2011, Nord Stream AG, a consortium led by Russia’s Gazprom natural gas company, started looking at plans to build a new pipeline under the Baltic …
Hromadske Radio

Sobchak says Prosecutor General’s Office inquiring into her statements on Crimea

MOSCOW – Russian television personality Kseniya Sobchak, who has announced her intention to run for president in 2018, said that the Prosecutor …
Interfax-Ukraine

Politico: Facebook to inform users of content they saw from Russian trolls

Facebook announced Wednesday it will unveil a tool by year’s end allowing users to learn of any Facebook or Instagram contact they may have had with …
POLITICO

EUobserver: Russia says EU counter-propaganda ‘harms’ relations

Russia has warned the EU against promoting itself in what it sees as its neighbourhood, amid final preparations for an EU summit with former Soviet …
EUobserver.com

The Moscow Times: Putin says defense companies should be prepared to increase military production

President Vladimir Putin said on Nov. 22 that large Russian businesses should be ready to increase production of military products and services. Read …
The Moscow Times

Associated Press: Russian baritone Hvorostovsky dies at 55

MOSCOW — Beloved Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 55. Read more here.
Associated Press

Bloomberg: Russian lawmakers pass law allowing crackdown on foreign media

Russian senators gave final approval to legislation rushed through parliament that allows authorities to crack down on foreign media in retaliation …
Bloomberg

Financial Times: Kremlin rallies to defence of oligarch detained by France

The Kremlin has vowed to do everything in its power to defend the interests of a Russian politician and oligarch detained by French police this week …
Financial Times

Associated Press: Russia confirms spike in radioactivity in the Urals

Russian authorities on November 21 confirmed reports of a spike in radioactivity in the air over the Ural Mountains while the suspected culprit, a …
Associated Press

BuzzFeed: Facebook may get cut off from Russia if it doesn’t comply with a local law

Russia may prevent Facebook from working within the country if the company does not comply with its laws on data storage, according to a Russian …
BuzzFeed

Deutsche Welle: NGOs in Russia – battered, but unbowed

For Marina Koltsova and her colleagues, the Russian Republic of Chechnya is a kind of no-go area, a blank spot on the map. “As a matter of principle, …
Deutsche Welle

New York Times: Russia, in reversal, confirms radiation spike

Russia said November 21 for the first time that it had detected a significant radiation spike in the Ural Mountains, close to a sprawling Soviet-era …
New York Times

Bloomberg: Turkey forgets lesson it taught Russia on ending market rout

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shouldn’t forget the time he taught Russian leader Vladimir Putin how to manage a currency crisis. When the …
Bloomberg

RFE/RL: HRW calls Russian ‘foreign agent’ law ‘devastating’ for environmental groups

More than a dozen environmental groups in Russia have shuttered their operations since the authorities required them to register as “foreign agents” …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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