News Highlights

A vote scheduled for Ukraine’s parliament, on which hangs the fate of both jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and Ukraine’s EU hopes, has been cancelled.

The Russian Embassy in Minsk has sent a second request for a meeting with the detained chief executive of Russian potash giant Uralkali because the first request was left unanswered, an embassy official said Tuesday.

Thirty people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling were moved from the northern city of Murmansk on Monday on their way to pre-trial detention centres in St. Petersburg, federal investigators and Greenpeace said.

In its consideration of the complaints lodged by seven persons involved in 2012 Moscow riots case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has sent a number of questions to Russia, attorney Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI on Monday.

The head of Gazprom and Serbia’s prime minister have agreed the start of the construction of the Serbian stretch of the ‘South Stream’ pipeline meant to transport Russian natural gas to Europe by bypassing Ukraine.

Russian investigators have opened a money laundering case against former Bank of Moscow president Andrei Borodin and his ex-first deputy, Dmitry Akulinin, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish ambassador on Tuesday to voice concern after firecrackers were thrown at the Russian embassy during riots by far-right youths in Warsaw.

A Moscow court sentenced four men to lengthy prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment Monday for their role in organizing a 2011 suicide terrorist attack on an airport in the Russian capital that left 37 dead.

Two Russian nationalists who threw a tomato at visiting Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima at a concert in Moscow have been charged with petty hooliganism and may face 15 days in prison, officials said.

Russia’s foreign and defence ministers will travel to Cairo next week for joint talks with their Egyptian counterparts about weapons sales and political relations, a Russian official said on Friday.