Eastern Europe

US and Russian diplomats met in Trkiye to discuss a narrow range of bilateral issues, the Russian Foreign Ministry said...

US announces sanctions on the Russian Defense Ministry and Russia's Aerospace Forces over allegedly purchasing Iranian drones...

Cadillac Fairview, the real estate arm of Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, has bought a 25% stake in UK developer and asset manager Stanhope. Cadillac Fairview and Stanhope already have joint venture s to deliver life sciences and...

The photographer, Gabriele Galimberti, reportedly said that the vast majority of the threatening messages he received came from the United States....

Import duties are approved until December 31, 2023 in respect of "individual goods, whose country of origin are states and territories taking measures that breach economic interests of the Russian Federation"...

However, Croatia's Bruno Petkovic tied the score in the 117th minute of the game, cannoning a ball into the bottom corner past opposing goalkeeper Alisson Becker...

Croatia will join the Schengen passport-free area starting January 1st, 2023, the Czech Presidency of the EU Council announced on Thursday. Home affairs ministers from EU member states who met in Brussels, in the Justice and Home Affairs Council, green li...

The mission reported that Ukrainian forces opened fire at 7.59 p.m. from the village of Tonenkoye...

It was stressed that Russia has never wanted an arms race and has always demonstrated its openness for dialogue...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - British musician Elton John said on Friday that he was leaving Twitter because of concerns that misinformation on the social media platform is being used to divide the world....

The state budget and social security budget have these days been under debate in Bucharest's Parliament, after being adopted by the Government. The state budget was built on an estimated economic growth rate of 2.8% and a 14% increase in revenues, whi...

The court ruling said that Yashin had intentionally and knowingly spread false information about the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine...

According to the Russian diplomat, this is a result of Washington's Russophobic policy...

Kosovo has increased the number of police officers in North Mitrovica and other ethnic Serb-dominated communities amid rising tensions. It comes after local ethnic Serb police, prosecutors, and lawmakers quit to protest a ban on the use of old Serbian-iss...

In three Belarusian cities, the number of Russian mobilized soldiers has increased. — Ukrinform....

The White House has announced a new $275 million aid package to help boost Ukraine's air defenses, in particular against Russian drones....

The head of NATO has expressed worry that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of control and become a war between Russia and NATO, according to an interview released on December 9....

In March, Russian forces occupied the Izyum Baking Products Integrated Factory, a leading producer of animal feed in Ukraine. The troops laid waste to the factory complex, stealing or destroying nearly anything they could get their hands on. Locals in the...

MOSCOW. Dec 9 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned 200 Canadian citizens from entering Russia in response to sanctions imposed by Canada on Russians."In response to personal sanctions introduced by Ottawa against Russian officials, ser...

Swedish police say they have no new comment on the situation surrounding Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who colleagues say has disappeared, after separatist leaders said they had been told he is alive and under police protection....

Anatoly Antonov said Moscow still believes the New START Treaty meets the national interests of both Russia and the US and is also an "important tool to ensure predictability and prevention of an arms race"...

2018 finalists Croatia are through to the FIFA World Cup semifinals after a dramatic penalty shootout victory against Brazil...

DOHA (Sputnik) - The Croatian national football team defeated the Brazilian squad in the quarterfinal of the World Cup in Qatar in a penalty shootout....

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania need to work together during the current energy crisis and there are plans to create a regional supply agreement, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) said on Friday in Riga....

Earlier this week, Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who spent 15 years in a US prison, was swapped for US WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who was arrested in Russia earlier this year. The deal did not involve Paul Whelan, presently serving a 16-ye...

According to Sadyr Japarov, food security in the EAEU was ensured as a result of joint coordinated measures...

Save Meduza! https://support.meduza.io/en The Russian Ministry of Justice included publication The Bell in its list of "foreign agents," according to a consolidated registry the ministry maintains....

Save Meduza! https://support.meduza.io/en During a press briefing on the results of his visit to Kyrgyzstan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is considering modifying the Russian nuclear doctrine, to include the possibility of a preemptive nu...

A new poll conducted since the November 2022 midterms shows US President Joe Biden recovering some of his pre-election loss of popularity. However, the recent defection of a key Democratic senator might shake up perceptions that his administration can gov...

About one million infants were born in January - October 2022, while 1.5 mln persons died in the same period of this year...

Viktor Bout said the inmates were "largely favorably disposed toward Russia"...

The Treasury said Pamfilova and CEC member Nikolay Levichev had previously been sanctioned by Canada, the European Union, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom...

China's advances in space are putting "most" US assets in the domain at risk, America's Space Command has warned...

Sam Brinton, the US Nuclear Energy Department's first 'genderfluid'; official, is accused of stealing luggage from Las Vegas airport...

Sergey Ryabkov reminded the US senators of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which provides for a precise and comprehensive definition of the phenomenon...

Following the IOC's recommendations in late February, the majority of global sports federations decided to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sports tournaments...

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) praised 'exceptional'; developments following an IOC summit in Switzerland...

The document commutes Bout's 25-year sentence to the time he has served by now to make it possible to release him...

It was stressed that the authors of such statements have not visited Donbass since 2014...

The researchers conducted their study by measuring the light emitted by the planet's host star, gauging how that light dimmed when the planet was passing between the star and Earth....

On November 17, 2021, TASS and Roscosmos signed a memorandum of cooperation, according to which the agency's office was opened on the ISS. Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin became the first special correspondent for TASS. His flight lasted 12 days...

International logistics company Venipak opened its first parcel machine in Tallinn's Lasname Centrum on Friday and plans to add another 150 across the country....

The Government of Norway has signed an agreement with the World Bank to provide NOK 1 billion for the restoration of Ukraine infrastructure damaged in Russian missile attacks. — Ukrinform....

The parties also noted a record growth in trade between the two countries and expressed their readiness to continue and develop cooperation on trade in energy resources...

Croatian shipping company Tankerska Plovidba requested Croatia's central depository on Friday to obtain from minority shareholders 241,130 shares in peer T...

Resolutions of the UN Security Council are binding but the majority of current sanction regimes are unilateral and regulated within the framework of national legislation...

Apple rarely talks about the adoption of the company's latest iOS versions, and while the company does share official numbers every now and then, it's yet to publish such information for iOS 16.Announced in September, iOS 16 is one of the biggest ...