Eastern Europe

KYIV. Jan 17 (Interfax) - Germany and France will do everything possible to relaunch and revitalize the Normandy format, which bring together representatives of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said."We to...

ALMATY. Jan 17 (Interfax) - Kazakh banks have allocated more than 13 billion tenge, or around $30 million at the current rate, for economic recovery, cancelled penalties and fines for delays given during the state of emergency, and also wrote off loans to...

The U.S. Senate rejected on Jan. 13 legislation that would sanction businesses tied to the development of... - Jan. 17, 2022. By Roman Woronowycz...

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MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax) - The Russian Industry and Trade Ministry has completed the collection of bids for a special investment contract (SPIC) for the production of electric cars, the ministry's press service said.Two bidders - Motorinvest LLC (Lip...

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 17 (SeeNews) - The main equity index of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) continued to rise on Monday for a 17th straight session,...

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu today signed an instruction on the summoning of the parliament's spring session starting from 1 February 2022.Under the regulation, the parliament's summoning in plenary meeting will ...

MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax) - The Russian leadership is able to ensure national security and rights of Russian citizens, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday."Anyway, rest assured that the Russian leadership is able to ensure its interests from...

One of the most outspoken figures in tennis has savaged the Australian government over Novak Djokovic's deportation, calling his Covid vaccination row nonsense as part of a rant in which he seemed confused about some of the facts....

A year ago, opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's announcement that he'd return to Russia was greeted with enthusiasm by his supporters across the country. But after the massive crackdown that followed his arrest and imprisonment, some are asking wh...

Billionaire would-be Mars colonizer Elon Musk has renewed his call for humanity to live a "multiplanetary" lifestyle, insisting it's the only way the species will escape a "mass extinction crisis" caused by the sun's expansion....

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau city and the central Ialoveni district are under the red code of COVID-19 starting from today. The National Public Health Agency (ANSP) updated the list of settlements, depending on the incidence of the new-t...

At the same time, according to the strategy, NATO has no plans to become an autonomous actor in outer space...

A draft of amendments to the Belarusian Constitution was made public for a nationwide discussion on December 27...

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 17 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) increased by 0.39% to 643.66 points on Monday, sup...

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Monday met with the new Ambassador of Qatar to Greece Waleed......

Japanese journalist Yusi Koyanagi said that in October 2021, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation arranged his visit to Russia's Far East, where he had a chance to see the country's state-of-the-art weapons.According to Japanese publi...

According to a new report by the Business Ombudsman Council, abuses and pressure by law enforcement on Ukrainian... - Jan. 17, 2022. By Vincent Mundy...

We're now living through a global inflation crisis. Prices are skyrocketing all over the world... - Jan. 17, 2022. By Pavlo Kukhta...

In 2019, during a visit to Damascus, Crimea's representatives on the Russian delegation signed an agreement with Syria's Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade on trade and economic cooperation between a number of Russian and Syrian enterprises...

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ - The Mihail Dolgan public library from the Rediul Mare village, northern Donduseni district, has been renovated. On this occasion, the settlement's mayor, Ludmila Harabari, organized an action of commemoration of the d...

The Iranian president will take inventory of the entire bilateral agenda during Raisi's upcoming visit to Russia...

One of the remaining mysteries from the Second World War may have been solved after an international team of investigators revealed the name of the person who "very likely" betrayed young Jewish diarist Anne Frank....

Serbian tennis icon Novak Djokovic has arrived back in his homeland after being ordered to leave Australia. A crowd of fans gathered to greet Djokovic upon his return, following a fraught fortnight Down Under....

LONDON (Sputnik) The Muslim Council of Britain has urged the Parliament's House of Lords to reject government amendments to a controversial policing bill, which campaigners say would give police new powers to clamp down on demonstrators....

The program put forward by Polish top diplomat Zbigniew Rau contains all the major and key elements in three security-related areas...

Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka has said that joint military maneuvers will be held with Russia in February close to the borders with Ukraine as well as eastern NATO member states....

Ukraine and Germany are committed to the diplomatic settlement of the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine and see a common goal in holding a summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries. — Ukrinform....

BUCHAREST (ROMANIA), January 17 (SeeNews) - ROMANIA'S DAILY ELECTRICITY SPOT PRICES Reporting on the daily changes in Romania's elect...

BUCHAREST (ROMANIA), January 17 (SeeNews) - ROMANIA'S DAILY ELECTRICITY SPOT VOLUMES Reporting on the daily volume and changes in Roman...

PARIS (Sputnik) - Right-wing French presidential contender Marine Le Pen's standing has improved after anti-migrant former pundit Eric Zemmour joined the crowded race, a poll published on Monday showed....

UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries indicated earlier that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s licence fee would be abolished in 2027, with funding frozen for the next two years and ultimately replaced by new funding methods....

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), January 17 (SeeNews) - The two stock indices on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE) finished lower on Monday, as Telekom Slovenije [L...

According to the suggested amendments, Russia's adult population would be able to visit public places only with either a QR code confirming vaccination, a document certifying that a person had recovered from COVID-19, or a medical exemption from inocu...

Germany intends to soon open an office for hydrogen diplomacy in Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said....

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Japanese government is considering the request of 11 prefectures, including Tokyo, to place them under tougher COVID-19 restrictions as Omicron cases continue to grow, the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday, citing sources....

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu and other MPs today were vaccinated with the booster dose against Covid-19.In the context, Igor Grosu reiterated the urge to the residents to be vaccinated against coronavirus, in order to be...

"here is nothing more criminal at this time than Mitsotakis' governance," stated main......

It is reported that the necessary administrative and technical preparations were made for slowing down the service's operation in Russia...

The prosecution is asking Pechersky District Court to choose for Petro Poroshenko, fifth president of Ukraine and leader of the European Solidarity party a measure of restraint in the "coal case" in the form of detention with an alternative bail w...

US retail giant Amazon said it will continue accepting UK-issued Visa credit cards on its British website, adding it was working with Visa to settle the dispute over fees it collects with every purchase....

January's full moon is called the Wolf Moon because wolves can be heard howling more often during this time of the year....

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 17 (SeeNews) - Greek durable goods provider Fourlis Group said that it plans to open 120 Holland&Barrett stores over time in...

The next step is to prepare the spacecraft at the technical compound of the European spaceport...

In 2021, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos was canceled due to the pandemic and restrictive measures introduced by the Swiss government. In 2022, the WEF in Davos is scheduled for 17-21 January....

MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax) - A magistrates' court in Moscow has found the MyHeritage platform guilty of an administrative offense, i.e. the refusal to localize data of Russian citizens in the Russian territory, for the first time on Monday."MyHerit...

A number of NGOs in Delhi have filed several petitions to make marital rape a criminal offence. The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), conducted in 29 Indian states, reported that at least 7 percent married women had been forced by their husb...

Members of the Russian Orthodox Church have come out with 39 new initiatives, including a new prayer service for those who are "possessed with computer passion."...