Eastern Europe

The aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out nine strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Russian occupiers during the day, as well as one on an enemy anti-aircraft missile system....

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk has announced the beginning of a discussion with members of the British Parliament on the recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as the genocide of the Ukrainian people....

Chisinau, 27 March /MOLDPRES/ - The State Hydrometeorological Service (SHS) has informed about a Yellow Code of sharp weather change for 28 March. According to meteorologists, heavy precipitation (15-20 /square metre) is expected in the time interval 27 M...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi as part of a working trip to Zaporizhia region....

Maria Drokova, the former press secretary of the Kremlin-sponsored youth organization Nashi who subsequently moved to the U.S., has received Kyrgyz citizenship, according to a presidential decree published online by the Kyrgyz authorities....

Coal production at state-owned mines fell by more than half in 2020-2022, Volodymy Yehorov, Director General of PJSC Centrenergo, said in an interview with delo.ua....

Chisinau, 27 March /MOLDPRES/ - The Medicine Commission of the Medicine and Medical Devices Agency (AMDM) have authorized 80 medicines, of which 42 ones for the first time ever. Among the medicines authorized repeatedly, there are such pharmaceutical prod...

The ports of Chornomorsk and Pivdenny sent 150,000 tonnes of agricultural products to Asian countries as part of the grain initiative on Monday, the Ministry of Restoration reported on Monday....

Adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak recalled the absence of the "Ukrainian crisis" and urged "not to look for soft synonyms for war crimes."...

Verzilov is accused of spreading "fake news" for two social media posts about the atrocities in Bucha....

Chisinau, 27 March /MOLDPRES/ - The National Bank of Moldova (BNM) has established an exchange rate of 19.93 lei for one euro for 28 March, up by 0.04 lei against today.At the same time, the American dollar will cheapen by 0.01 leu and will have a price o...

Chisinau, 27 March /MOLDPRES/ - A festivity on the awarding of prizes of the Culture Ministry for 2022, the tenth issue, took place at the headquarters of the National Art Museum of Moldova today. Attending the event were Prime Minister Dorin Recean, Cult...

Employees and retirees in the southwestern Iranian city of Shush have gone on strike to protest living standards and to push the government to approve wage and social payment increases in the Iranian New Year....

As of 15:00 on Monday, at least 32 people are known to have been wounded as a result of enemy rocket fire in the center of Sloviansk, Donetsk region, two people were killed, the National Police of Ukraine report....

The Ukrainian President's surprise trip to the partially occupied region is just one of several such visits over the past week....

During a working trip to Zaporizhia region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy observed the work of the command post of the Zaporizhia operational group of troops....

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at the advanced positions of the Ukrainian army in Zaporizhia region, the press service of the head of state reports....

The Save Ukraine Foundation has brought 17 Ukrainian children home who had been taken by Russian authorities to annexed Crimea. Their parents had been persuaded by occupying forces in the Kherson region to send their children to a summer camp in Crimea to...

On Monday, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine Marek Shafin visited Kherson region on a working visit, said head of Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin....

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The Ukrainian defense forces need to conduct not one, but a series of successful counter-offensives in order to convince Putin to start negotiations on conditions other than achieving all of his stated goals, according to a report by the Institute for the...

A leaked phone conversation critical of Putin continued to send shockwaves through Russia's elites on Monday....

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi met with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of his regular visit to Ukraine....

Dozens of schools in Bulgaria were evacuated on March 27 after bomb threats were e-mailed to the schools. Schools in the capital, Sofia, and the cities of Burgas and Varna on the Black Sea were among those affected....

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Official Beijing does not support Russia's intentions to move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press conference....

The Support Ukraine's Reforms for Governance (SURGe) project, funded by the Government of Canada, will provide expert support to the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine on recovery, regional development and ...

An Iranian parliamentarian says the government's new strategy to enforce the compulsory wearing of the hijab will eliminate physical punishment for women and instead carry financial and administrative penalties that have been approved by the leader of...

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As expected, the ruling Amanat party won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan earlier this month, official results show, in a vote the Central Election Commission said had several "minor" violations but that some opposition...

Ukraine has become one of the world's largest minefields, about 180,000 square kilometers of the country's territory need to be cleared of explosive objects, Director of the Crisis Bureau of the UN Development Program Asako Okai has said....

Yefremov, a town of 37,000 people in Russia's Tula region, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons....

BEC attacks are usually aimed at stealing money or valuable information, but the FBI warns that BEC scammers are increasingly trying to get their hands on physical goods such as construction materials, agricultural supplies, computer technology hardware, ...

Ukraine is a democratic state in which freedom of religion is guaranteed, but freedom is not the same as the right to engage in activities that undermine national security, Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleh Nikolenko said, comm...

Russian plans to station nuclear arms in Belarus will go ahead despite a Western backlash, the Kremlin said Monday....

The metallurgical industry will recover only after the ports are unblocked the opening of sea ports not only for grain, but also for steel exports, could bring Ukraine up to $600 million in foreign currency proceeds every month, according to the Metinvest...

Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania call on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to prevent Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in the Olympic Games under a neutral flag, stressing that Russia and Belarus can return their at...

Following months of brutal assaults spearheaded by Russia's Wagner mercenary troops, Ukraine's military claims to have stabilized the beleaguered eastern city of Bakhmut....

The number of victims of the morning shelling of Sloviansk has increased to two, the number of wounded, up to 29, among the wounded there is a child, Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said....

As a result of the morning shelling of Sloviansk, Donetsk region, one person was killed, 25 were wounded, administrative and office buildings, five high-rise buildings and seven private houses were destroyed, Head of the regional military administration P...

The head of a far-right military unit fighting on the side of Ukraine has been placed on Russia's wanted list....

Russian and Belarusian athletes should be banned from the 2024 Olympics in Paris unless Moscow pulls its forces out of Ukraine, Poland said on March 27, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it plans to let them compete as neutrals....

The operation of uncrewed surface ships (USVs) and aerial drones is likely to limit the operations of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, according to British intelligence....

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, have agreed to meet during the ongoing Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Saudi state news agency SPA said on March 27....

State Duma deputies visiting occupied Ukraine on official business will not have to submit tax returns this year....

The U.S. Department of Defense says there are no signs that Moscow plans to use nuclear weapons, according to Reuters....

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two major issues: the deal struck between Serbia and Kosovo, and how the EU is stepping up nonlethal military support for Georgia and Moldova....

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