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ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Residents of the flood-stricken Russian city of Orenburg arrived at evacuation points on Wednesday by inflatable boat, carrying whatever they could grab from their homes in small bags. One elderly woman in a life-jacket...

With Slovakia the latest member to elect a Russia-leaning leader, the EU is increasingly open to hostile interference, says Chatham House’s Armida van Rij

How a Balkan crime gang sprang a Russian businessman from Italian house arrest.

The world this week

ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Residents of the flood-stricken Russian city of Orenburg arrived at evacuation points on Wednesday by inflatable boat, carrying whatever they could grab from their homes in small bags. One elderly woman in a life-jacket...

The former Russian arm of Carlsberg Group, Baltika Brewery, is demanding RUB 84.1 billion (US$950 million) for its losses.

A court in Russia has added two more years to the 7 1/2 year prison term for a former associate of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the latest step in the Kremlin’s yearslong crackdown on dissent. Lilia Chanysheva, who used to head Navalny’s office in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, is already serving her sentence on charges of extremism. Her lawyer says Bashkortostan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday extended her sentence to 9 1/2 years. The Kremlin’s crackdown against oppositio...

Russias inflation peak has passed, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Wednesday, although the slowdown is not yet sufficient for interest rates to start to fall. Russias...

Longtime dissident Aleksandr Skobov is being held in St. Petersburg on a charge of "justifying terrorism." The 66-year-old, who spent years in psychiatric hospitals in Soviet times, makes no apologies for his outspoken opposition to Vladimir Putin. And he has no intention of backing down now.

As the EU plans for enlargement, it will be imperative that the European Commission remains ruthless in ensuring that candidate countries abide to the newly enshrined European Media Freedom Act. Otherwise, there is a real risk of bringing in countries that will defy the integrity of the European Union. Alignment with the Act must become a vital pre-condition for membership negotiations, writes Antoinette Nikolova, Director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative, a Brussels-based organisation that...