Russia on August 10 reported 21,378 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,811 in the city of St Petersburg, taking the official national case tally to 6,491,288 since the pandemic began. Read more here. The post Reuters: Russia reports 21,378 new COVID-19 ...

A court in Moscow has sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for allegedly attacking a police officer during a January rally in support of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: Activist gets term for using pepper spr...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, whom the EU and the U.S. do not recognize as legally elected, did not take part in the Minsk talks in 2014-2015, his role was limited to the host, co-chairman of the faction European Solidarity parliamentary...

Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) Artem Sytnyk is concerned about the long pause in the competition for the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) and notes the risk of electing a “politica...

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) recorded 168 ceasefire violations in the Donetsk region and 283 in the Luhansk region between the evenings of 6 and 8 August, according to an OSCE SMM report. Read more here. The post UkrInform: OS...

A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko said a Belarusian sprinter defected at the Olympic Games only because she had been “manipulated” by outside forces and shrugged off a coordinated barrage of new Western sanctions on August 9. Read more her...

Poland and Latvia have a registered a record number of migrants crossing their borders with Belarus, amid accusations Minsk is using migrants as a weapon against the European Union. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: Poland, Latvia report surge of migr...

PrJSC Inter TV Channel in 2020 increased its net profit from Hr 938,000 to Hr 177.4 million. According to the statements published on the company’s website, its net income from product sales last year increased by 15.3%, to Hr 978.8 million, gr...

Over the past day, August 9, nine ceasefire violations by the armed formations of the Russian Federation were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation area in eastern Ukraine. Read more here. The post UkrInform: 9 ceasefire violations recorded in easte...

During the day on August 9, some 140,008 people were vaccinated against coronavirus. A total of 83,697 Ukrainians received the first vaccination, another 56,311 fully completed the immunization process, receiving both doses of the vaccine, according ...