February 8, 2017 0 Putin Challenger Navalny Convicted In Retrial Russian anticorruption campaigner and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been found guilty in a politically-charged embezzlement ...
February 8, 2017 0 Date Set For Crimean Journalist’s Trial A date has been set for the high-profile trial of journalist Mykola Semena in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian region of Crimea. ...
February 8, 2017 0 Trump Defends Immigration Order U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his temporary ban on all refugees as well as travelers from seven predominantly Muslim ...
February 8, 2017 0 U.S. Senators Submit Bill Seeking Veto Power Over Trump On Russia Sanctions A group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would hamstring any effort by President Donald Trump’s ...
February 8, 2017 0 Amnesty Warns Russian Law On Domestic Violence Puts Women At Greater Risk Amnesty International says a new law that decriminalizes some forms of domestic violence in Russia poses a greater risk to women. ...
February 7, 2017 0 U.S. Appeals Court To Hold Hearings On Trump Travel Ban A U.S. appeals court will hear testimony on February 7 over whether to restore President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on ...
February 7, 2017 0 Russian Filmmakers Protest Attempts To ‘Censor’ Film About Young Tsar Filmmakers in Russia say a State Duma deputy and Russian Orthodox activists are trying to prevent a romantic film about Tsar ...
February 7, 2017 0 Lavrov Says Trump Position On Ukraine Differs From Obama’s Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he views U.S. President Donald Trump’s opinion about the conflict in Ukraine as ...
February 7, 2017 0 Putin’s Navalny Dilemma The Kremlin appears to have no idea what to do with Aleksei Navalny. They seem afraid to imprison him; they’ve been unable ...
February 7, 2017 0 Putin Signs Law Decriminalizing Some Domestic Violence Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that decriminalizes some forms of domestic violence. ...
February 7, 2017 0 Fox News’ O’Reilly Refuses To Apologize For Calling Putin ‘A Killer’ Fox News television presenter Bill O’Reilly refused to say he was sorry after the Kremlin demanded an apology for ...
February 7, 2017 0 Death Toll From Avalanches In Afghanistan Rises To At Least 119 Afghan officials were working on February to reach remote villages after avalanches and heavy snow killed at least 119 people ...
February 7, 2017 0 U.S. House Leader Urges More Spending On Missile Defense, Citing Iran The United States should invest more in missile defense given repeated missile testing by Iran and North Korea, the chairman of ...
February 7, 2017 0 Astrakhan Man First To Be Fined For Not Reporting Terrorism-Linked Crime A court in Russia’s southwestern region of Astrakhan bordering Kazakhstan has fined someone for the first time for not ...
February 6, 2017 0 The Daily Vertical: Playing Putin’s Border Game The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. (The views expressed in this ...
February 6, 2017 0 Kremlin Wants Apology From Fox News Over Putin ‘Killer’ Comment The Kremlin says it wants an apology from Fox News over what it said were “unacceptable” comments one of the ...
February 6, 2017 0 The Daily Vertical: Playing Putin’s Border Game (Transcript) The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. ...
February 5, 2017 0 Controversial Wall Torn Down in Kosovo’s Mitrovica Local Kosovar Serb authorities in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica have demolished a concrete wall they had built near ...
February 5, 2017 0 White House Warns Iran To ‘Think Twice’ Before Testing U.S. Resolve U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has warned Iran “not to test the resolve” of the Donald Trump administration days ...
February 5, 2017 0 A Century Later, Faberge Still Dazzles A century ago, Faberge produced its last legendary Easter egg. The following year, in 1918, in the early days of Russia’s ...
February 5, 2017 0 Turkey Detains Over 400 In Anti-IS Operation Turkey’s counterterrorism police have detained over 440 people for alleged links to the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. ...
February 5, 2017 0 Majlis Podcast: Central Asia Prepares For Trump Administration In the case of relations with, for example, China, Russia, and Mexico, there are already signals about the Trump ...
February 4, 2017 0 Iranian Professors Call For Easing Travel Restrictions For U.S. Citizens A group of professors has urged Iranian President Hassan Rohani to respond to a recent order by U.S. President Donald Trump ...