NATO chief: Rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe does not violate deal with Russia
NATO’s new chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says plans for a new rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe do not break a
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Lukoil closes refinery in Romania after facility placed under distraint
A Russian subsidiary in Romania has decided to close down a refinery it operates in Ploiesti after prosecutors levied a
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Poland’s gas deliveries from East still short of order
Poland had natural gas deliveries from Russia realized at a stable level in the week ending on October 2, but
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Centre-right government returned in Latvia
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma’s three-party coalition looked set on Sunday to be returned as the Baltic nation’s next government.
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Ukraine’s Poroshenko to sign lustration bill, amendments possible
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on October 3 that he would sign into law a bill introducing comprehensive lustration of
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US high ranking diplomat renews warning against corruption in Eastern Europe
Victoria Nuland, assistant US secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, has again criticised, in a speech held in
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Russia in mind, Latvia votes in parliamentary elections
Polling stations opened in Latvia on Saturday for parliamentary elections from which the current ruling center-right coalition under Prime Minister
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Khodorkovsky vows to give voice to ‘European-oriented’ Russians
Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been many things: a Communist Party youth group leader who became one of post-Soviet Russia’s first billionaires,
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Slovakia faces gas supplies halved
A fifty per cent drop in Russian natural gas deliveries on October 1 put the Slovakian government on alert with Prime
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