Eastern Europe

BBC: Russian Zapad military exercise in Belarus raises tension

It is being billed as a military exercise, but when Russian and Belarusian forces start Zapad-2017 this week, many neighbouring countries will be …
BBC

Reuters: Prominent Russian journalist leaves country after threats

MOSCOW – Prominent Russian political commentator and writer Yulia Latynina has left Russia fearing for her life, she told a Moscow radio …
Reuters

Agence France-Presse: Russia detains dozens at protest supporting Rohingya

MOSCOW – Russian police detained people from a crowd of about 200 protesters Sunday in Saint Petersburg who had gathered over the crackdown on the …
Agence France-Presse

Bloomberg: UK’s Fallon says Russian war games aimed at provoking West

Russia is testing the West by conducting war games on NATO’s eastern flank in its biggest military exercise in four years, U.K. Defense Secretary …
Bloomberg

Reuters: Russia’s Rosneft to ship record 40 million tonnes of oil to China in 2017

MOSCOW – Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft plans to export a record 40 million tonnes of crude oil to China this year, Chief Executive Igor Sechin was …
Reuters

112.ua: Foreign Minister of Lithuania calls on Russia to cancel West-2017 drills

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Antanas Linkevičius called on Russia to cancel the planned West-2017 military drills bordering with …
112.ua

The Moscow Times: Russian journalist Latynina flees Russia after attacks

Journalist Yulia Latynina has left Russia with her family, after suffering a series of intimidating attacks in recent months. Attackers released a …
The Moscow Times

112.ua: More than 100 Ukrainians jailed in Russia looking for employment there

Ombudsman of Ukraine Valeriya Lutkovska informed that almost 100 Ukrainians, who went to Russia to find employment, but instead went to jail, …
112.ua

Reuters: Putin, FIFA head send main soccer trophy on Russia tour before 2018 World Cup

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Saturday launched the World Cup trophy on a tour across Russia ahead …
Reuters

Associated Press: New Moscow park brings ‘wilderness’ to the city center

MOSCOW — With a visit from President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has inaugurated an innovative 32-acre (13-hectare) park that mimics features of Russia’s …
Associated Press

Financial Times: Call for deeper Nato co-operation ahead of Russia ‘Zapad’ war-games

Nato countries must deepen security co-operation in the face of rising tensions with Russia, top Baltic defence officials have urged, as Moscow …
Financial Times

Reuters: Minister says Ukraine may exit Egypt wheat market over new rules

Ukraine might lose its second largest wheat export market, Egypt, due to new wheat import requirements that favour rival Russia, Ukraine’s acting …
Reuters

Reuters: RIA reports Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov to meet US Shannon on September 11-12

MOSCOW – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov will meet U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon in Helsinki on Sept. 11-12, the RIAnews …
Reuters

Reuters: Putin tells Russia’s tech sector to ditch foreign software

MOSCOW – Russian technology companies will lose out on state orders unless they switch to using home-grown software, Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Reuters

112.ua: Lawyer says Crimean political prisoner in Russia brought to Bashkortostan

Convicted by Russian court Ruslan Zeitullayev was brought to a penal colony in Bashkorostan, as his lawyer Edem Semedliaev said, according …
112.ua

Belarusian opposition protest against drills with Russia ends without incident

MINSK – An unauthorized opposition rally protesting the upcoming Zapad 2017 joint Russia-Belarus exercise took place in the center of the Belarusian …
Interfax-Ukraine

Xinhua: Belarusian FM says West artificially pressures situation around Belarusian-Russian drills

Western countries are not interested in objectively evaluating the West-2017 drills, but they want to artificially inflate the situation around the …
Xinhua

112.ua: People protest against West-2017 in Minsk

Head of Belarus National Congress Mikalai Statkevich started a protest against Russian-Belarussian military exercise West-2017, as Belarus …
112.ua
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