Eastern Europe

Newsweek: Russia will pay millions to fence off Crimea from Ukraine

President Donald Trump may no longer be the undisputed architect of the most infamous potential border obstruction in the world, as the Kremlin has …
Newsweek

The Moscow Times: Jon Huntsman confirmed as next US ambassador to Russia

Jon Huntsman has been confirmed as Washington’s man in Moscow, following the departure of John Tefft on Thursday. Read more here.
The Moscow Times

112.ua: ISIS claims to have captured and killed Russian soldiers in Syria

The Islamic State reported that their forces captured two Russian army servicemen during the fights in Deir-ez-Zor province in Syria. That was …
112.ua

Associated Press: Russian doping whistleblower faces arrest if he returns

A Russian court has ruled that doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov should be arrested if he returns to his home country. The ruling could be a …
Associated Press

Reuters: Russian and N.Korea diplomats to meet in Moscow to discuss missile crisis

Oleg Burmistrov, Russia’s ambassador-at-large, will meet Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department at North Korea’s foreign …
Reuters

Reuters: Russian hacker wanted by US tells court he worked for Putin’s party

 A Russian hacker arrested in Spain on a U.S. warrant said on September 28 he previously worked for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and …
Reuters

Financial Times: Carmakers gear up for recovery in Russia

For the past two years, Mitsubishi’s Pajero Sport production line in western Russia has laid dormant. When a customer ordered a car, it would be …
Financial Times

Reuters: Russia tell US to step back from dispute over military observation flights

The Russian Foreign Ministry on September 28 told the United States to step back from a confrontation over military observation flights before the two …
Reuters

Reuters: Fitch reports Russia’s rating would be one notch higher without US sanctions

MOSCOW – Russia’s sovereign rating would be one notch higher than its current BBB- level if not for the latest round of U.S. sanctions, the head of …
Reuters

Poll shows quarter of Russians say political, economic protests possible

MOSCOW – An overwhelming majority of Russians, 69 percent, believe that mass protests against deteriorating living standards or in defense of people’s …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Daily Beast: Zuckerberg blew off Russian troll warnings before the attack on America

The 2016 presidential election wasn’t the first time Russian trolls used Facebook to mess with another country’s political system. And it wasn’t the …
The Daily Beast

New York Times: Russia destroys chemical weapons, and faults US for not doing so

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin of Russia presided over the destruction of his country’s last declared chemical weapons on Sept.27, describing the …
New York Times

Newsweek: Putin says Russia’s chemical weapons are gone, taunts US over its remaining stockpile

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of failing to live up to commitments to destroy its existing chemical weapons stockpile, Russia’s …
Newsweek

Deutsche Welle: Russia destroys last Cold War-era chemical weapons

Russia completed dismantling its Cold War-era chemical weapons arsenal on Sept.27, according to Russian officials and the head of the international …
Deutsche Welle

Associated Press: Russia reports destruction of all remaining chemical weapons

MOSCOW — Russia has completed the massive task of destroying its Cold War-era chemical weapons stockpiles, winning praise from an international …
Associated Press

Financial Times: Rescues of Russian banks allow state to tighten its grip on sector

After Russia’s central bank announced it would nationalize a second big bank in three weeks, it claimed last week to have averted a “domino effect” in …
Financial Times

UNIAN: EU envoy says no connection between peacekeepers in Donbas and sanctions rollback

European Union Ambassador to the Russian Federation Vygaudas Usackas says the EU does not link the possible deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbas, …
UNIAN

Associated Press: Russian military holds missile drills

The Russian military on Tuesday test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and also launched drills involving missile units in Siberia. The …
Associated Press
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