Eastern Europe

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - Ukraine has fulfilled 72% of all obligations envisaged by the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement."Ukraine has already fulfilled 72% of all obligations under the agreement, which is an important element of Ukrain...

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - The dates of the eighth Eastern Economic Forum have been moved again.The forum will be held in Vladivostok on September 10-13, 2023, the press service for Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far East Y...

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - Up to 5 GW of generation capacities remained out of order in the Joint Energy System of Ukraine as of March 23, 2023, from October 2022, First Deputy Energy Minister Yury Vlasenko said at a round table dedicated to distribute...

General Emil Boek, the last living Czech airman who served in Britain's RAF during WWII, died on Saturday at the age of 100.The veteran pilot served with the RAF's 312 and 310 squadrons and participated in over two dozen operational flights. After...

An official delegation from the Czech Republic, headed by speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markta Pekarov Adamov, arrived in Taiwan on Saturday on a five-day visit aimed at boosting mutual ties between the two states.The 160-strong delegation included ...

YEKATERINBURG. March 24 (Interfax) - Uralkhimplast (UHP, Sverdlovsk Region) currently has a year's supply of imported raw materials and is working on securing alternative supplies from Asian producers, the company said in financial reporting.The plant...

BAKU. March 24 (Interfax) - The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) has started the transit of Kazakh oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, SOCAR Midstream Operations, a SOCAR subsidiary, said in a statement."The fir...

U.S. President Joe Biden has said that China has not yet provided weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine. — Ukrinform....

Russian forces used mortars to shell three border villages of the Sumy region early on Saturday, March 25. — Ukrinform....

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - In pursuing a tax reform, Ukraine should strike a balance between competing objectives, namely mobilizing critical resources for the state budget and providing incentives for economic growth, World Bank Vice President for Eur...

Russia's deportation of children from Ukraine is an element of the crime of genocide. — Ukrinform....

Senior Ukrainian military commander Oleksandr Syrsky said a counter-attack could be launched soon against "exhausted" Russian forces....

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is working to organize a second Africa tour for Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba this summer and hold a Ukraine-Africa summit. — Ukrinform....

Ukraine needs additional military support from partners, without which it cannot launch a counteroffensive and liberate the temporarily occupied territories, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in his address to the graduates of the Odesa Maritime Academy that Russian ships already know what expects them in Ukrainian waters. — Ukrinform....

Ukraine plans to hold the second Grain from Ukraine summit this autumn to ensure the further functioning of this humanitarian initiative. — Ukrinform....

Russia kept two warships armed with up to eight Kalibr cruise missiles in the Black Sea early on March 25. — Ukrinform....

After a meeting with representatives of the IMF and the World Bank on March 23, the group of creditors of Ukraine (GCU) provided financial guarantees for a new IMF-supported EFF program for Ukraine, IMF Deputy Executive Director Vladyslav Rashkovan has sa...

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba of Ukraine suggests that, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba doubts that the Republic of South Africa, if Russian President Vladimir Putin appears in the country, will be able to ignore the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on a warrant for his arrest....

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed gratitude to the Security Service operatives for their daily work to protect national security and defend the country. — Ukrinform....

As a result of Russian strikes over the past day, 16 civilians have been killed and 59 injured. — Ukrinform....

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny on Friday held a phone conversation with Chief of the British Defense Staff, Tony Radakin, during which he briefed the latter about the situation on the battlefield, including in Bakhmut d...

Russian invaders established full control over the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve in Ukraine's Kherson region. — Ukrinform....

A bipartisan group of senators called on the Joe Biden administration to share with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which earlier issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, evidence of Russia's war crimes committed in Ukrai...

Russia's assault on the town of Bakhmut in Donbas has almost stopped. — Ukrinform....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has not received any proposals to hold talks with the country's leader Xi Jinping. — Ukrinform....

From February 24, 2022, to March 25, 2023, Ukraine's Defense Forces eliminated 169,890 Russian invaders, including 720 in the past day. — Ukrinform....

A Polish citizen was killed at the front line in Ukraine, fighting off the Russian onslaught. — Ukrinform....

Chisinau, 25 March /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova today marks the Earth Hour, thus joining the sustained actions to this end internationally. Thus, today evening starting from 20:30, the illumination of the public institutions and the street illumination will be di...

Chisinau, 25 March /MOLDPRES/ - The Green Line of the Border Police since early 2023 has received more than 10,000 phone calls on behalf of citizens. In most cases, operators' assistance was demanded by parents who were to cross the border with minors...

Chisinau, 25 March /MOLDPRES/ - The international specialized exhibitions, MOLDCONSTRUCT, at the anniversary 25th edition, and the MOLDENERGY exhibition, at its 24th issue, will be organized at the Moldexpo International Exhibitions Centre during 29 March...

Chisinau, 25 March /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova's national football team on 24 March tied the match with the team of the Faroe Islands with the score 1:1, in the first match of the 2024 European Championship's qualifiers, group E. According to the Moldova...

Opti9 Technologies has launched Observr Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ransomware detection and standalone managed services two new standalone service offerings that cater to organizations leveraging Veeam Software. As the complexity of organizations' I...

McAfee has expanded partnership with Mastercard to offer Mastercard Business cardholders automatic savings on online protection solutions from McAfee through Mastercard Easy Savings. According to the latest FBI Internet Crime Report, malicious cyber activ...

Supporters of four right-wing Serbian opposition parliamentary parties demonstrated in Belgrade, blocking traffic and demanding the government reject a plan agreed by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti on the process...

EU plans to seize Russian assets following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine are unprecedented and tricky, the chief of the EU task force said on March 24....

China's partnership with Russia has limits, despite rhetoric to the contrary, and Europe should welcome any attempts by Beijing to distance itself from Moscow's war in Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said....

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba assured that there are no obstacles for Ukraine's cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) without ratification of the Rome Statute....

Assets of the private pension system in 2022 grew by UAH 263.2 million, or by 6.8%, to 4.14 billion, but the number of private pension funds fell from 64 to 55, the ICU investment group reported on its Telegram channel on Friday....

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the fighters who inflict retaliatory strikes on the occupier for terror, who calculate the positions of the enemy, from which they strike at our cities....

Iran's judiciary has confirmed an 18-year prison sentence for activist Fatemeh Sepehri, an outspoken critic of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after calling on him to resign....

Leroy Merlin plans to transfer control of its Russia business to local management, the DIY retailer's parent company Adeo said in a press release....

The findings of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine confirm the commission by Russia of mass war crimes on Ukrainian territory, violation of human rights and disregard for all norms of international humanitarian law, Commissioner for Human R...

Ukrainian soldiers have been honing their skills to shoot down Iranian-made drones with machine guns. Russian forces have been using the drones to launch attacks across Ukraine, including on residential housing and civilian infrastructure. The Ukrainian m...

In 2022, JSC Karlovsky Machine-Building Plant (KMZ Industries, Poltava region), a large Ukrainian manufacturer of silos, saw a net profit of UAH 61.34 million, which is 9.5% less than the same indicator in 2021....

Three Iranian women have been arrested after arguing with another woman who was attempting to enforce rules on wearing a head scarf in the central city of Yazd....

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko handed over hemostatic turnstiles and a Starlink communication system, as well as a pickup truck from Kyiv volunteers, to the soldiers of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade defending Bakhmut. In addition, servicemen of the 72...

The Russian Interior Ministry has added to its wanted list a self-exiled former speechwriter of Vladimir Putin, Abbas Gallyamov, known for his analyses of political and social developments in Russia and the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and in...