Poland said Friday it would have a British laboratory search for traces of explosives on samples from a 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed 96 people, including then-Polish president Lech Kaczynski. The state prosecutor’s office said the tests would be carried out by the Forensic Explosives Laboratory at Fort…
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Donbas Blockade Exposes Political Fault Lines in Ukraine.
Moscow’s Transformation of Kaliningrad into ‘Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier’ a Threat to Europe, Lithuanian Analyst Says.
Russia is “categorically opposed” to the termination of the New START nuclear arms control treaty, the head of the Federation Council’s defense committee, Viktor Ozerov, said on Feb. 24. Russia will push for an extension of the treaty, Ozerov said adding that it was “fundamental to global security” the RIA…
As the former deputy head of the presidential administration, later deputy prime minister and then assistant to the president on foreign affairs, Surkov has directed Russian society like one great reality show. He claps once and a new political party appears. He claps again and creates Nashi, the Russian…
Russia hit back Wednesday over allegations it was involved in a failed coup in Montenegro and an attempt to assassinate the country’s former Prime Minister, describing the claims as damaging to relations between the two nations. Montenegro’s chief special prosecutor has said that authorities believe Russian security services were involved…
The largest bikini snow show was at Sheregesh, which already holds the world record of 1,835 downhill skiers and boarders wearing swimwear. The Kemerevo region resort probably had more participants this year – an estimated 2,000 – but this was not an official record attempt. An end to the ski…
Romania’s governing coalition proposed a new justice minister on Wednesday as part of a cabinet reshuffle it hopes will draw a line under a period of upheaval triggered by a decree on graft that it was later forced to scrap. The decree would have decriminalized several graft offences, effectively shielding…
Russia has long prided itself on its simple 13 percent flat income tax rate. But a series of reform proposals could push the country towards a progressive alternative. The Finance Ministry, the Economic Development Ministry and the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) are actively developing reforms for the Russian tax…