Eastern Europe

The Moscow Times: What Putin said about MH17 that didn’t make it into Stone’s ‘The Putin Interviews’

In his recent interview with U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin unwittingly repeated a thoroughly debunked claim that a Spanish flight …
The Moscow Times

Wall Street Journal: Paul Manafort’s overseas political work had a notable patron – a Russian oligarch

Paul Manafort’s political-consulting firm was active for more than a decade doing work that often dovetailed with Russian political interests not only …
Wall Street Journal

Reuters: Russia gears up for major war games, neighbors watch with unease

MOSCOW – Russia is preparing to hold large-scale military exercises it says will be of a purely defensive nature, amid concerns in neighboring nations …
Reuters

Poll shows Russians worry most about price rise, poverty, unemployment

MOSCOW – Price rise still tops the list of social problems in the eyes of Russians, although its topically has declined over recent years, from …
Interfax-Ukraine

Gazprom builds 220 km of TurkStream’s two gas pipelines

MOSCOW – Gazprom has now built 220 kilometers of the two lines of the TurkStream gas pipeline, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said during a teleconference …
Interfax-Ukraine

Associated Press: Germany’s Schroeder says he’ll go ahead with Rosneft plan

BERLIN — Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is vowing to go ahead with a plan to join the board of directors of Russian oil giant Rosneft, a …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: Navalny punches even higher with new video alleging secret island dacha used by Putin

Aleksei Navalny, the charismatic anticorruption crusader and persistent thorn in the Kremlin’s side, has published exposés exploring the wealth of …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL: Suspect in Russian director’s fraud case warns of repressions

A suspect in the criminal investigation into prominent Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov has warned of a looming clampdown by …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Gazprom says sanctions won’t stop Nord Stream 2 pipeline project

MOSCOW – The $11 billion Nord Stream 2 project to add a second Russian trans-Baltic gas export pipeline will be implemented regardless of how new U.S. …
Reuters

Associated Press: NATO sending 3 monitors to Russia war-games but wants more

BRUSSELS — NATO said on August 30 that it will send three experts to observe military exercises between Russian and Belarus next month but alliance …
Associated Press

Financial Times: Stronger rouble takes heat out of Gazprom profits

Gazprom, the world’s largest gas producer, saw its net income plunge more than 80 percent in the second quarter, missing analyst forecasts as revenues …
Financial Times

Financial Times: Gazprom income falls 80 percent on foreign-exchange hit

Russia’s largest gas producer, Gazprom, has reported a more than 80 percent plunge in net income for the second quarter, on a foreign-exchange hit to …
Financial Times

112.ua: EU to discuss extending anti-Russian sanctions next week

Officials of the European Union are going to discuss extension of anti-Russian sanctions, directed against individuals and companies involved in the …
112.ua

RFE/RL: Russia’s Central Bank steps in to rescue troubled lender

Russia’s central bank said on August 29 that it was stepping in to save the country’s eighth largest lender, Otkritie, after it suffered a sustained …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Bloomberg: Russia says war games don’t threaten Poland, other neighbors

Russia said major war games planned next month with Belarus, on NATO’s eastern flank, don’t threaten other countries and aren’t a cover for invading …
Bloomberg

UNIAN: Russian bots fight back against bot researchers

Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab), a research team tracking pro-Kremlin accounts has found itself the target of an automated …
UNIAN

Reuters: Russia, in one of biggest bail-outs in its history, rescues Otkritie bank

Russia’s central bank launched one of the biggest banking bail-outs in its history on August 29, saying it would rescue troubled private lender …
Reuters

Associated Press: Russian employee of Bombardier pleads not guilty to bribery

A Russian employee in the Swedish branch of Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated bribery. If …
Associated Press
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