Ukraine is on the verge of a civil war, according to a media statement made by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Feb. 19. ...

Russian opposition leader, and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, reportedly traced an undeclared property worth RUB 86 mln to the deputy-speaker of the right-wing minority Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Igor Lebedev, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Feb. 18. ...

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree banning adoption of Russian children by citizens, whose countries legalized gay marriages, the Russian daily Kommersant wrote Feb. 13. ...

The Russian Federal Migration Service together with the Ministry of Economic Development have drafted a law that will allow foreigners who invest more than RUB 10 mln in the Russian economy to obtain citizenship, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Feb. 12. ...

Ukraine may change the law to allow the entry of Russian citizens only with international passports, the Ukrainian daily Fakty.ua wrote Feb. 6. ...

A scandalous video referred to as the “Maidan Puppets,” by the media, where the U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Kiev Jeffrey Payette frankly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the three main Ukrainian opposition leaders, was recently leaked to the Internet, Russian business daily Kommersant reported, on Feb. 7. ...

Russian anti-government campaigner, and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, published a report on alleged instances of corruption surrounding the construction works in and around the Olympic village of Sochi ...

Some 24,000 cans of Latvian sprats have been taken off the shelves in Russian supermarkets after Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian food safety watchdog, claimed to have discovered high levels of benzopyrene, a known carcinogen, in several imported canned fish products. ...

An inspector from the main Moscow police department suspected of bribery was arrested in Moscow after police seized USD 500,000, Russian daily Gazeta.ru reported on Jan. 14. ...

The Slovakian Economy Ministry announced that it has closed negotiations with Russian energy giant, Rosatom, on its entry into a project to build a nuclear facility at Jaslovske Bohunice, the local media reported on Dec. 30, 2013. ...