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Sweden and Finland have announced plans to offer billions of dollars in guarantees to Nordic and Baltic power companies in an effort to prevent a financial crisis in the face of Europe’s energy crunch stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal arrived in Berlin late on September 3 for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other senior officials, becoming the first top-ranking Kyiv official to visit Germany in months. 

​​​​​​​U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan has completed his assignment as envoy to Moscow and has departed the Russian capital, the embassy said on September 4.

Because of their friendly ties to the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin, the Russian bikers, the Night Wolves, face roadblocks across the EU. But in Bulgaria, a branch of the gang is cruising along, meeting and greeting Russian officials and blessed by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

PARIS (AFP) – Thirty years after the dawn of the modern Champions League, the group stage of this season’s competition kicks off this week in the penultimate year in its current format, as Real Madrid begin their defence of the trophy. Marseille were the champions in that inaugural 1992/93 season, but no French club has […]

An annual cultural event called the Essay Of Victory is due to be held soon around Russia and Central Asia to test participants’ knowledge of World War II. But one Kazakh city is refusing to take part, calling it Russian state propaganda that is inappropriate with war raging in Ukraine.

At least one person has been killed and 10 injured in a forest fire in the Kostanay region of northern Kazakhstan, the country’s Emergency Situations Ministry reported on September 4.​

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has named former president of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva as the UN's new special representative for Afghanistan.

Thousands of people lined up in Moscow on September 3 to pay their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, an architect of drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War. 

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations has said it’s “alarming” that no one from the 56-member Russian advance team and delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has received a U.S. entry visa to attend a UN General Assembly debate in New York later this month.