Russia has extended its list of countries subject to a food import ban in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
Food producers in Belarus are getting around the Russian ban on European imports. The ban was imposed in response to Western sanctions against Russia for its...
By Professor Philip Hanson OBE, Chatham House Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme The centralization of decision-making on Russia’s finances reflects how the strain of economic...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha at a document-signing ceremony following Russia-Thailand talks in Bangkok. (RIA Novsti/Alexander Astafyev) Thailand has...
On 29 July, in a landmark vote, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved 'The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act', paving the way for...
The European Commission, on behalf of the EU, has disbursed a loan of €600 million to Ukraine. This corresponds to the first instalment under the new...
In Krymsk, police officers broke up a Jehovah's Witnesses congress. Cossacks who arrived with them cut off the electricity to the stadium at which the event...