Eastern Europe

Reuters: Russia passes ‘foreign agents’ media law on second reading

MOSCOW – Russia’s lower house of parliament on Nov. 15 passed on second reading a law that would allow the Russian authorities to designate foreign …
Reuters

Gazprom almost doubles gas stocks in European underground storage for winter

Gazprom has almost doubled gas stocks in European underground storage facilities for the current winter period compared to what it usually stores, …
Interfax-Ukraine

Associated Press: Russian security agency detains 69 members of Islamic group

Russia’s top domestic security agency says it has detained 69 suspected members of an outlawed Islamic group during a raid near Moscow. The Federal …
Associated Press

BBC: Russian politicians dismiss Theresa May ‘election meddling’ criticism

Senior Russian politicians have dismissed accusations by Theresa May that Moscow has meddled in elections and carried out cyber-espionage. On November …
BBC

Guardian: Russia’s ‘irrefutable evidence’ of US help for Isis appears to be video game still

Russia’s defence ministry has tried to pass off what appear to be stills from a mobile phone military simulation game as “irrefutable evidence” of …
Guardian

RFE/RL: Lawmaker says media rejecting ‘foreign agent’ label would ‘stop working’ in Russia

Foreign-funded media outlets that refuse to register as foreign agents under legislation drafted by Russian lawmakers will be ejected from the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Chicago Tribune: Russia drafts legislation targeting foreign media

Russian lawmakers submitted legal amendments November 14 that would allow the government to register international media outlets as foreign agents, a …
Chicago Tribune

The Guardian: British MP calls on Twitter to release Russian ‘troll factory’ tweets

A senior British MP has called on Twitter to release examples of UK-related postings linked to a Russian “troll factory”, citing concern at possible …
The Guardian

The Moscow Times: US stokes Siberian separatist war in new Russian film

The U.S. State Department and George Soros are funding efforts for Siberia to secede from Russia — or so goes the script of an upcoming feature film …
The Moscow Times

RFE/RL: Medvedev says EU trying to force Russia to abort Nord Stream 2 pipeline project

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the European Union’s attempts to regulate the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project appear to be aimed at …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Court in Moscow to consider case of Russian who fought in Donbas in Azov battalion

MOSCOW – Moscow’s Babushkinsky Court will consider on Nov. 14 in absentia a criminal case against Russian citizen Roman Zheleznov, who is accused of …
Interfax-Ukraine

New York Times: Kalashnikov, AK-47 maker, goes private as Russian government sheds stake

MOSCOW — Its products are used daily all over the world. It is one of Russia’s most recognizable brands. In recent years, it has diversified, …
New York Times

Associated Press: UK prime minister says Putin aims to ‘weaponize’ information

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain and its allies will work together to fight Russian actions that threaten the international …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: Russia’s RT registers under US foreign-agents law

WASHINGTON — Russia’s state-funded RT television network has registered in the United States under a decades-old law intended to limit foreign …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Putin – Our work with Turkey, Iran is producing results in Syria

President Vladimir Putin said on November 13 Russia’s work with Turkey and Iran was producing concrete results in Syria and creating conditions for a …
Reuters

Reuters: CNN, Deutsche Welle could be hit by Russia’s ‘foreign agents’ media law

Media outlets such as CNN, Radio Free Europe and Deutsche Welle could be affected by Russia’s new “foreign agents” media law, Andrei Isayev, a senior …
Reuters

Bloomberg: How an oil giant (Russia) came to dominate wheat

Russia, a leading exporter of crude oil for decades now, is increasingly dominating another critical global commodity. Its output of wheat has surged …
Bloomberg

Reuters: Russia’s RT registers as ‘foreign agent’ in USA

RT America, the U.S. arm of the Kremlin-backed TV station RT, has registered as a “foreign agent” in the United States, the outlet’s editor in chief …
Reuters
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