Eastern Europe

Reuters: Russia and China tell North Korea, US and South Korea to embrace de-escalation plan

Russia and China joined diplomatic forces on July 4 and called on North Korea, South Korea and the United States to sign up to a Chinese de-escalation …
Reuters

Wall Street Journal: Oil giants lobby against bill to toughen Russia sanctions

Exxon Mobil Corp. and other energy companies have joined President Donald Trump in expressing concerns over a bill to toughen sanctions on Russia, …
Wall Street Journal

Financial Times: Russia, China form $10 billion investment fund

Russian state development companies announced the creation of a $10 billion investment fund and a $850 million innovation fund with China on July 4 as …
Financial Times

Associated Press: Kremlin says Putin-Trump meeting to be on July 7 in Germany

MOSCOW – The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will take place July 7 in Germany. Read …
Associated Press

Associated Press: No ‘specific agenda,’ but Trump, Putin have lots to discuss

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week will be brimming with global …
Associated Press

Associated Press: US, Russia diplomats try to get canceled talks back on track

WASHINGTON – The United States and Russia worked July 3 to restore a key diplomatic channel between the two clashing nations, days before President …
Associated Press

Bloomberg: Russia probe accelerates as House Committee plans interviews

The House Intelligence Committee is accelerating its probe of possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, with plans to …
Bloomberg

RFE/RL: Kremlin says Russia’s patience wearing thin over seized compounds in US

A senior Kremlin official says Moscow is losing its patience with Washington over the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds by U.S. authorities …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Washington Post: Putin made a lot of promises to Russians on his call-in TV show

 It was Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. In the flesh. Standing in front of the dilapidated wooden barracks where Anastasia Votintseva shares a …
Washington Post

The Guardian: First meeting for Trump and Putin – what will the power dynamics reveal?

Hamburg will this week play host to one of the strangest encounters in modern history, when Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet on the margins of the …
The Guardian

CNN: Trump, Putin and the meeting that could shape the world

They meet, at last. US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been circling one another, intrigued yet at a distance, ever …
CNN

RFE/RL: Russian director Zvyagintsev Wins top prize at Munich Film Festival

A film by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev titled Loveless won the top prize at the 35th Munich Film Festival. The film on July 1 was named winner …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Agence France-Presse: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko gives short shrift to doping questions

ST. PETERSBURG – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko sarcastically offered to “do a Russian dance” on Saturday if the media would stop asking …
Agence France-Presse

RFE/RL: At least 13 reportedly killed in bus-truck crash in Russia’s Tatarstan region

Russian state-run TASS news agency says at least 13 people have been killed in a collision between a truck and a bus near the city of Zainsk in the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Slutsky: Russia decreases its payments to CoE to lack of its delegation’s participation in PACE work

MOSCOW – Russia is decreasing its contribution to the budget of the Council of Europe (CoE) by the amount proportional to its lack of participation in …
Interfax-Ukraine

Associated Press: Sessions hopes Russia probe ends ‘sooner rather than later’

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a vote of confidence Friday to former FBI director Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading an …
Associated Press

Politico: Putin extends counter-sanctions against EU

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree on Friday extending through 2018 sanctions against the EU that he imposed in retaliation for action …
POLITICO

Reuters: US, Britain urge Russia to bring those behind Nemtsov slaying to justice

LONDON – The United States and Britain urged Russia on Friday to bring to justice all those responsible for the slaying of opposition politician Boris …
Reuters
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