Eastern Europe
OTTAWA – With as many as 175,000 Russian troops reportedly approaching Ukraine’s borders, the head of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “created the en
Dec. 13, 2021
MURMANSK, Russia — Two months after 20-year-old conscript Yegor Voronkin arrived at his post in the Murmansk region settlement of Pechenga, he was rushed to a hospital in the city of Severomorsk. For
Nov. 1, 2021
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will be transferred to a prison infirmary if necessary, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Oct. 29. “Saakashvili’s transfer to a city hos
Oct. 29, 2021
MOSCOW — A court-ordered psychiatric examination has concluded that a teenager who attacked a school in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan in May, killing nine people, is mentally ill. Read more here.
Jul. 21, 2021
A Russian court has banned the distribution of adult cartoon “Happy Tree Friends” and several other animated films within the country, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. Read mor
Jul. 8, 2021
MOSCOW — Larisa Shoigu, the older sister of the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and a member of parliament’s lower chamber, has died at the age of 68. Read more here.
Jun. 10, 2021
MOSCOW—Russia has morphed into a dystopia; not a day goes by without word that a new victim has been snatched by the authorities. The map of police raids on people’s homes stretches all across the cou
Jun. 6, 2021
The Russian President warned on Thursday that those who attack the country will “have their teeth knocked out.” Vladimir Putin was speaking at a government meeting when he made the strong comment sayi
May. 21, 2021
Richard Kruspe, the guitarist for the German rock group Rammstein, has expressed his support for a former associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny after he was handed a prison
Apr. 30, 2021
MOSCOW – Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, has again left Russia, an informed source told Interfax. Yulia Navalnaya left Russia on a Germany-bound flight on Marc
Mar. 25, 2021
Editor’s Note: The following is an interview by Tetiana Popova of Dom television with British writer and journalist Luke Harding, a correspondent for The Guardian in London. Since New Year’s Day, Grea
Jan. 23, 2021
Ukraine and six more countries have joined the European Union’s sanctions against Belarusian officials for rigging the presidential vote and carrying out violent repressions against peaceful protester
Nov. 20, 2020
The Belarusian authorities demanded during a meeting with Polish Charge d’ Affaires ad interim in Minsk Marcin Wojciechowski that Poland extradite two Telegram channel founders, Stepan Putilo and Roma
Nov. 16, 2020
Federal intelligence agencies are investigating whether emails detailing Hunter and Joe Biden’s alleged illicit dealings in Ukraine are part of a foreign intelligence operation targeting the US electi
Oct. 16, 2020
Nadezha Alyokhina was hauling a refrigerator home with a friend when the first of a string of deadly hostage dramas began to unfold in the south of Russia 25 years ago. Read more here.
Jun. 14, 2020
French prosecutors have placed a Russian artist and his girlfriend under investigation over the leaking of a sex video that brought down a close ally of Emmanuel Macron. Read more here.
Feb. 18, 2020
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On Nov. 16, 1994, Ukraine adopted the draft law by which Ukraine would sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons, the first step that made it vulnerable to Russian aggression.
Nov. 16