Eastern Europe

112.ua: Trump believes that Facebook supported Clinton

While the information that Russia used various social media, including Facebook, to meddle in the US presidential election back in 2016, U.S. …
112.ua

Agence France-Presse: Russia frees opposition leader Navalny as Kremlin race heats up

MOSCOW – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walked free on Sunday, October 22, after a 20-day jail term for organizing protests against …
Agence France-Presse

Reuters: Russia accuses US-led coalition of ‘barbaric’ bombing of Syria’s Raqqa

MOSCOW – Russia accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Sunday of wiping the city of Raqqa “off the face of the earth” with carpet bombing in the …
Reuters

UNIAN: Media reports pro-Ukrainian Russian activist released after 2 years at penal colony

A Russian activist imprisoned for Internet posts criticizing Russia’s interference in Ukraine has been released from a penal colony after serving her …
UNIAN

Associated Press: Russian opposition leader Navalny leaves jail, goes to rally

MOSCOW- Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, has been released from jail after a 20-day sentence for calling an unauthorized …
Associated Press

Agence France-Presse: Russian opposition chief Navalny says released from jail

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Sunday he had been released from the Moscow detention centre where he had served a 20-day term for …
Agence France-Presse

The Guardian: Russia accused of supplying Taliban as power shifts create strange bedfellows

Afghan officials have called on Moscow to stop supporting the Taliban, as the militant group steps up attacks across the country, allegedly with the …
The Guardian

The Guardian: Russia puts British Putin critic on Interpol wanted list

Russia has placed a prominent British businessman on the Interpol wanted list. President Vladimir Putin is understood to have sanctioned the move …
The Guardian

Deutsche Welle: Alexei Navalny, the candidate for Russian elections who can’t

Alexei Navalny wants to become Russia’s president in 2018. Yet the election commissioner has said a prior conviction blocks his path to the Kremlin. …
Deutsche Welle

Turkey issues environmental clearance to Gazprom on last section of TurkStream

KAZAN – Turkey has issued an environmental clearance to Gazprom to build the last section of the TurkStream gas pipeline to run near the Turkish …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Guardian: American activists manipulated by Russian trolls

It’s painful for Tawanda Jones to talk about her brother. But when she’s offered a chance to speak publicly about how he died in Baltimore police …
The Guardian

Reuters: Kremlin says Putin, Erdogan discuss Syria in phone call

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed an upcoming meeting of the Astana process on the Syrian …
Reuters

New York Times: In Russia, a bribery case lifts the veil on Kremlin intrigue

MOSCOW — The Russian elite, the group of oligarchs and other loyalists around President Vladimir V. Putin who amassed great wealth over nearly two …
New York Times

Conflict in Ukraine to be discussed at Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels on Oct 26

The meeting of the Russia-NATO Council is to take place on October 26, 2017 in Brussels, and one of the key issues to be discussed is the Ukrainian …
Interfax-Ukraine

Spiegel: NATO grapples with serious organizational shortcomings

In a secret report, NATO warns that it may not be prepared to confront a hypothetical Russian attack. Senior military officers would like to see a …
Spiegel

Agence France-Presse: No pomp as Russia revolution centenary nears

MOSCOW – A century after its revolution shook the world, Russia strives to strike an odd balance between remembering the uprising that brought about …
Agence France-Presse

Washington Post: Putin accuses ‘certain American bodies’ of conspiring to keep Russia out of Olympics

Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks he knows why the International Olympic Committee hasn’t yet approved Russia to compete in next year’s Olympics …
Washington Post

Voice of America: Russia hands over MiG-29 fighter jets to Serbia

BATAJNICA, SERBIA — Russia formally handed over six MiG-29 fighter jets to Serbia on Oct.20, part of an arms delivery that has the potential to …
Voice of America
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