Eastern Europe

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev has said a motley group of mafiosos, criminals, and corrupt officials is trying to remove him from power. His critics, however, say that he's the one who's protecting these types of lawbreakers....

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The Russian resort town of Sochi has some of the highest luxury housing prices in the world, a new study shows....

Kazakh tycoon Qairat Boranbaev, whose daughter is the widow of the grandson of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on corruption charges....

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has received a constitutional submission from 49 MPs regarding the compliance with the Constitution of Ukraine of the Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the issues of the presence of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia o...

The Prime Ministers of Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia declared their full support for Ukraine and the need to punish the crimes committed by the Russian army....

The executions in cold-blood committed by the Russian military in Bucha were part of the Kremlin's plan to eliminate Ukrainians, and war criminals will be held accountable, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said....

Locals in Avdiyivka explain why they are choosing to remain even as the eastern Ukrainian city risks being wiped out by fighting, and recount the unimaginable hardships of frontline life amid the Russian invasion....

Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen and a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has reportedly gone missing in Yekaterinburg. Local publicist Yaroslav Shirshikov, who accompanied Gershkovich on a previous reporting trip he made there, told the outlet 66.ru t...

A reporter for The Wall Street Journal has been detained in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on charges of espionage, Russia's FSB security service said on March 30....

The FSB alleges that Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was involved in the collection of "secret information" about a Russian defense company....

A man in Russia's western region of Tula, whose daughter drew an anti-war picture at school last year, has been arrested in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, after escaping house arrest in Russia....

Four police officers were killed in northwestern Pakistan late on March 29, authorities said....

Metropolitan Pavel, the head of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, where the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been headquartered since 1992, said in a YouTube video posted Wednesday that "God will not forgive" Volodymyr Zelensky or his family for...

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The Academic Senate at his faculty at Prague's University of Economics and Business this week decided to stand by controversial dean Miroslav evk, Seznam Zprvy reported on Thursday.The rector of the entire institution, Petr Dvok, recently called on Mr...

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Brent crude oil futures for May on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) at the close of March 29 amounted to $78.28 per barrel , . , - ; ; ....

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The Czech Ministry of Defence has distanced itself from athlete and Czech Olympic Committee member David Svoboda after he expressed support for Russians and Belarusians being allowed to take part in the Olympics. Svoboda, who won gold in the modern pentat...

Ukrainian forces continued to hold their ground on the eastern front over the past day, the military said on March 30, repelling dozens of attacks in and around Bakhmut, the city in the Donetsk region that has been the focal point of Russia's offensiv...

The clinical study of the dietary supplement, derived from "Kalamata" organic table olives by......

Force will not be used to evict representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from the Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said on March 29 after monks who have been order...

The journey towards digital transformation for organizations and governments has been fraught with difficulties, resulting in some users needing to catch up as more digital services are introduced. In this Help Net Security video, Jenn Markey, VP of Payme...

In this Help Net Security interview, Tomasz Kowalski, CEO at Secfense emphasizes the significance of multi-factor authentication in the corporate landscape, highlights the use of microauthorizations to improve the security of protected applications, and m...

The release of a cybersecurity maturity assessment tool by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) aims to provide Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with a valuable resource for enhancing their security posture. As a significant driver for i...

Organizations are leaving common attack paths exposed in their quest to combat emergent threats, according to Cymulate. The most concerning cyber threats The report delves into the efficacy of different security controls, the most concerning threats as te...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will attend the inauguration of the Hellenic Fire Service......

As Europe's enterprises return to normal following the COVID-19 pandemic's impact, they are looking for innovative and cost-effective ways to combine mainframe dependability with the flexibility of the cloud, according to ISG. Mainframe modernizat...

H0lyGh0st, Magecart, and a slew of state-sponsored hacker groups are diversifying their tactics and shifting their focus to... you. That is, if you're in charge of cybersecurity for a small-to-midsize enterprise (SME). Why? Bad actors know that SMEs t...

LOKKER has released its LOKKER Web Privacy Risk Score, the assessment tool that provides businesses with a clear, numeric rating of their privacy risk across a global portfolio of websites, individual websites within that portfolio, and the individual web...

BigID announced native data privacy capabilities to automate and help fulfill California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) requirements. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that went into effect o...

BreachLock has launched its API Penetration Testing Service, making API security testing more affordable compared to alternative pentesting providers. The company is best known for its human-led, AI-enabled Pen Testing as a Service (PTaaS) solution delive...

Bitwarden has launched the open beta of Bitwarden Secrets Manager, designed to centrally secure and manage highly sensitive authentication credentials within privileged developer and DevOps environments. Development teams work across applications and mult...

Police in Minsk have reportedly apprehended Alexey Moskalev, the single father from Russia's Tula region who fled house arrest on March 28, hours before a court sentenced him to two years in prison for repeatedly "discrediting4; Russia's mi...

A Tambov baking plant has expanded its product line to include reconnaissance drones. The improbable expansion was reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, citing the industrial bakery's deputy director Alexander Rudik....

Russia will no longer give the United States advance notice about its missile tests as envisioned under a nuclear pact the Kremlin has suspended, a senior Moscow diplomat said on March 29....

Authorities have inspected documents related to the construction of a tennis stadium in Banja Luka for the Serbian Open tennis tournament organized by the family of the world's second-ranked men's player, Novak Djokovic....

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Startup Workshop (MIT GSW) will take place on......

The Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sports has condemned what it called the "partial change of position" of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in international sports competitions....

Two long-distance freight trains will resume operation late on Wednesday evening, announced......

Before Russia's war in Ukraine, Olena Avilova's son, Andriy, worked in restaurants and cafes. He dreamed of opening a cafe of his own but died fighting in Kharkiv. Now his mother has brought his dream to life....

Four months after the disappearance of Molavi Abdul Ghaffar Naqshbandi, the Sunni imam from the Iranian city of Rask who disclosed the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a local police commander, a video has surfaced in which he warns of the possibilit...

U.S. forces left a trove of weapons behind when they withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. Some of those weapons have turned up in Pakistan, where they have been used by armed groups, according to experts and security officials....

Ukraine and seven other Central and Eastern European nations on March 29 called on the world's top tech firms to take action to fight disinformation by hostile powers on their social media platforms, which they say undermines peace and stability....

Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service has reportedly offered defense conglomerate Rostec the use of inmate labor....

A former top executive at Russian natural gas producer Novatek has been convicted of tax evasion in the United States....