Eastern Europe

Voice of America: Soviet refugees plant American roots in former Russian land

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States. Alaska is one of the biggest US states in land size and one …
Voice of America

112.ua: 49 people in occupied Crimea hauled in for ‘talks’ on their protesting

49 people were detained in the occupied Crimea for “unauthorized picketing”.  After the so-called local police “talked to them”, they were …
112.ua

Paul Goble: The Black Hundreds of 1917 have returned to Russia

In a classical example of Russian suggestions that “everything new is the well-forgotten old,” Nakanune commentator Elena Kiryakova suggests that the …
Paul A. Goble

112.ua: Russian Investigative Committee questioned Tyurin on murder of Voronenkov

The Investigative Committee of Russian Federation interrogated the crime boss Vladimir Tyurin, whom the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine …
112.ua

RFE/RL: Russian authorities detain Crimean Tatar protesters in Crimea

Dozens of people have been detained in the Russia-occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea for demonstrating in defense of Crimean Tatars. Lawyer Emil …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Associated Press: Russian drama wins London Film Festival

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, a piercing drama about a divorcing couple whose son disappears, has won the best picture prize at the …
Associated Press

CNBC: Finance minister says Russia is prepared for $40 oil

Russia has accounted for oil at $40 a barrel in its budget, the country’s finance minister Anton Siluanov told CNBC in a TV interview on Friday. Brent …
CNBC

Associated Press: Russian cargo ship launched to International Space Station

An unmanned Russian cargo ship has been launched to take supplies to the six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Saturday launch …
Associated Press

The Guardian: How Russia used social media to divide Americans

For the past year, the world has reeled at escalating reports of how Russia “hacked” the 2016 US presidential election, by stealing emails from the …
The Guardian

RFE/RL: Russia launches space cargo ship to ISS

An unmanned Progress space freighter carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched by Russia from the Baikonur cosmodrome in …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Agence France-Presse: Russia launches European satellite to monitor Earth’s atmosphere

MOSCOW – Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring Earth’s atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from …
Agence France-Presse

Financial Times: Russian film on tsar’s affair with ballerina sparks outrage

A film about Nicholas II’s premarital affair with a ballerina has angered supporters of the last Russian monarch and left cinemas too scared to screen …
Financial Times

New York Times: Russian banker denies role in planned Trump building in Moscow

WASHINGTON – A top Russian banker said Friday that his bank never had a role in a project once planned by the Trump Organization to build a tower in …
New York Times

RFE/RL: Russia questions validity of Syrian gas attack investigation at UN

Russia on October 13 complained that UN investigators failed to search for traces of the banned nerve gas sarin on their visit this week to a Syrian …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

New York Post: Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg says Russian ads should be released

Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg has admitted that the tech giant owes Americans “not just an apology, but determination” for the role it played in the …
New York Post

Reuters: Russia says Trump’s ‘aggressive’ stance on Iran doomed to fail

MOSCOW – Russia said on Oct.13 after US President Donald Trump chose not to certify a deal on Iran’s nuclear program that there was no place in …
Reuters

Reuters: Russia summons US envoy over missing consular flags

MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Oct.13 it had summoned the US Embassy charge d‘affaires in Moscow to protest against what it said was the …
Reuters

The Moscow Times: Miss Russia thanks Putin for lack of Weinstein-style harassment in Russia

Russian women have President Vladimir Putin to thank for the lack of sexual harassment incidents that are coming to light in the United States, two …
The Moscow Times
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