Eastern Europe
Moldova may enjoy a visa-free travel regime in its relations with the European Union as soon as the beginning of next year, according to Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius of Lithuania, the country pr
Oct. 18, 2013
A criminal case has been opened in Russia against a Ukrainian
fisherman who survived a collision between a Ukrainian boat with a
Russian Coast Guard vessel in the Azov Sea, the Ukrainian Foreign
Minis
Jul. 31, 2013
Moscow – The Russian sanitation authority has banned imports of the output produced by Roshen, a major Ukrainian confectionery company, head of the authority and Russia’s Chief Sanitation Doctor Genna
Jul. 29, 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been elected the leader of the Popular Front for Russia.
Jun. 13, 2013
MOSCOW – Russian agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor will remove German companies whose products may contain the dangerous carcinogen aflatoxin B1 from its list of suppliers to Russia.
Mar. 5, 2013
MOSCOW – French actor, businessman and vineyard owner Gerard Depardieu, who now holds a Russian passport, has been offered the post of culture minister in Russia’s internal republic of Mordovia, said
Jan. 7, 2013
Baikonur Space Center – A
Proton-M launch vehicle and a Briz-M upper stage have put the Luch-5B
and Yamal-300K satellites into orbit, Nikolai Sevastyanov, the general
designer of Gazprom Space Syst
Nov. 3, 2012
Moscow – Moscow has attacked
a decision by Latvia’s Central Election Commission to suspend
preparations for a referendum on a proposal for automatically granting
Latvian citizenship to the country’s
Nov. 2, 2012
MOSCOW — Russian
scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds
found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could
revolutionize industry.
Sep. 18, 2012
TALLINN – Nord Stream AG,
the operating company for the construction of the Nord Stream gas
pipeline across the Baltic Sea floor from Russia to Germany, has
requested of the Estonian Foreign Affairs
Aug. 27, 2012
Kazakhstan hopes for extension of the Dnepr rocket launches by Kosmotras, a Ukrainian-Russian-Kazakh JV, said the chairman of the National Space Agency of Kazakhstan (Kazkosmos) Talgat Musabayev.
Jun. 21, 2012
MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the United States wants to dominate other countries and that the world is tired of taking orders from Washington.
Dec. 15, 2011
MOSCOW – ‘Color revolutions’ are a well-tested scheme of destabilizing society, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
Dec. 15, 2011
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Police say a bus has collided with a train in Moldova, killing 8 people and leaving a dozen injured.
Nov. 1, 2011
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For the first time in 16 years, Copenhagen’s famed downtown amusement park Tivoli is replacing it’s traditional Danish Yule theme with a Russian Christmas feel to draw mo
Sep. 22, 2011
Seven presidential candidates who ran against the country’s authoritarian leader could face up to 15 years in prison and one was beaten so badly in the election’s aftermath he is unable to walk, hi
Dec. 22, 2010