Russia’s Central Bank has slashed interest rates from 7 percent to 6.5 percent in response to subdued domestic economic growth…
Russia & Eastern Europe
Russian trains ready for Crimea bridge
The first trains from Russia to the seized Crimea peninsula across the new Kerch Strait rail bridge will start rolling…
Human Rights Watch slams Russian child assault charges
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised Russia for opening a criminal probe into the alleged sexual assault of children who…
UK PM Johnson accused of delaying Russian report
Populist UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls to release a report assessing the threat from Russia to British…
Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky dies aged 76
Vladimir Bukovsky, a prominent Russian dissident who spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced-labour camps and psychiatric hospitals until 1976,…
Putin recommended to free Norwegian ‘spy’
A Russian commission has recommended President Vladimir Putin pardon a 64-year-old Norwegian jailed for spying, amid hopes of a spy…
Russia extends pre-trial custody of US citizen
Paul Whelan (pictured), an American held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison on espionage charges, has had his pre-trial detention until December…
24 Oct 2019
Spain braced for dictator’s removal from giant tomb
18 Oct 2019
‘Anarchists’ cut wrists in Russian court
16 Oct 2019
Leipzig marks 30 years since Cold War uprising
14 Oct 2019
The prospect of open skies in St Petersburg sparks excitement around Europe
10 Oct 2019
Russia labels Alexei Navalny’s group ‘foreign agent’
7 Oct 2019
Putin boasts about bolstering China’s missile defence
6 Oct 2019
Ukraine plans withdrawal from eastern frontline
2 Oct 2019
Russian alcohol consumption falls amid health drive
21 Sep 2019