Eastern Europe

Putin finds it premature to announce whether he will run for president again

BEJING – Russian President Vladimir Putin believes it is premature to announce whether he will run in the upcoming presidential elections. “No,” Putin …
Interfax-Ukraine

Business Insider: Oil prices jump as Russia and Saudi Arabia agree to extend oil output cuts

Oil prices have surged on May 15 after Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to extend crude oil output cuts until March 2018. This is part their latest …
Business Insider

RFE/RL: Stalin portrait goes up at Moscow subway station

A portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been hung at a Moscow subway station in celebration of the 82nd anniversary of the opening of the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Associated Press: Putin sits down at piano in China, plays Soviet songs

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin, known for his passion for the outdoors, showed off his softer side during a visit to China when he sat down …
Associated Press

Agence France-Presse: Russian TV cuts Putin mention from hit US show Fargo

MOSCOW – Russia’s state-controlled Channel One is airing the hit US series Fargo with a twist: mentions of President Vladimir Putin have apparently …
Agence France-Presse

Bloomberg: Tillerson says Russian election meddling ‘well documented’

Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election has been “well documented,”  but it’s still in the interests of the U.S. to attempt to improve …
Bloomberg

The Independent: Ildar Dadin ‘detained for peaceful protest near Vladimir Putin’s official quarters’

A Russian LGBT champion was detained for staging a peaceful protest near Vladimir Putin’s official quarters, according to a human rights …
The Independent

CNN: Russian jet flies within 20 feet of US Navy plane

A Russian military jet “arrived within approximately 20 feet” of a US Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane while it was flying in international …
CNN

Dvorkovich: Turkish market opening to boost grain exports in this agricultural year

MOSCOW – The opening of the Turkish market will allow Russia to increase its grain exports in the current agricultural year, Russian Deputy Prime …
Interfax-Ukraine

Capital outflow from Russia surges 2.1-fold in 4M due to growth in foreign bank assets

MOSCOW – Net capital outflow from Russia surged 2.1-fold to $21 billion in January-April 2017 from $9.8 billion in the same period of last year, the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Associated Press: Europol working on probe into massive cyberattack

The European Union’s police agency, Europol, says it is working with countries hit by the global ransomware cyberattack to rein in the threat and help …
Associated Press

Germany’s Stada doubles sales in Russia in Q1 2017

NIZHNY-NOVGOROD – German-based pharmaceutical concern Stada doubled sales in Russia to €76.9 million in Q1 2017, the company said in a report. The …
Interfax-Ukraine

Rusal repays over $1.5 bln to creditors in Q1, lowers debt to be repaid in 2017 to $500 mln

MOSCOW – Russian aluminum giant UC Rusal paid back a portion of pre-export finance (PXF) totaling $907 million in Q1 2017, the aluminum giant said in …
Interfax-Ukraine

Kaspersky Lab: WannaCry virus targets 74 countries, hits Russia most

MOSCOW – The Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has registered about 45,000 WannaCry ransomware virus attacks in 74 countries, with Russia …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: US settles Russian money laundering case

WASHINGTON — A Russian-owned group of companies has agreed to pay nearly $6 million to settle U.S. civil allegations that the firms laundered proceeds …
Reuters

112.ua: Hearing of violations of UN convention on Law of Sea by Russia occurs in Hague

The hearing at the suit of Ukraine about violation of UN convention on the Law of the Sea by Russia takes place in the International Court of Justice …
112.ua

Wall Street Journal: The story of Masha Drokova, a Putin acolyte turned Silicon Valley investor

Controversial Russian immigrant Masha Drokova, a former pro-Putin youth activist, is making inroads as a Silicon Valley investor. Read more here.
Wall Street Journal

CNN: Russia is playing games with Trump and pushing its own global agenda

Russia has gone from complaining about not knowing who to call at the US State Department to getting on with the job on its own. If Vladimir Putin was …
CNN
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