The U.S. government said on January 5 that Russia was “likely” behind a massive hack of government and private company networks discovered last month and the intrusion was an “intelligence gathering effort.”
Russia and Kazakhstan will increase oil production in February and March at the expense of Saudi Arabia.
Armenian President Armen Sarkisian has become the latest world leader with coronavirus, testing positive during a visit to London.
A court in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, has returned the case against well-known pro-Russian blogger, Ermek Taichibekov, to prosecutors, citing mistakes in the official filing of charges against the 42-year-old defendant.
Russian opposition activist Yevgeny Chupov, who fled Russia in 2019 fearing possible prosecution for his political activities, has received refugee status in Bulgaria.
Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has rejected recent comments by two Russian lawmakers describing Kazakhstan's current territory as being a “gift” from Russia.
A former senior Belarusian Interior Ministry official has vowed that a 2012 audio recording that allegedly spells out plans to kill several opponents of leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Germany is authentic.
An 87-year-old man in Tajikistan has been handed a five-year prison sentence for supporting families of jailed opposition politicians.
A man in Belarus, where longtime leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka is under popular pressure to step down, is facing charges over a snowman in his backyard.
South Korea says it will dispatch a government delegation to Iran "at the earliest possible date" to try secure the release of a tanker seized by Iran amid tensions over Iranian funds frozen in Seoul because of U.S. sanctions.
Russia and Kazakhstan have sought another increase in oil output during a meeting of OPEC+ as other members express concern about global energy demand amid the rapid spread of a new strain of the coronavirus.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg has surpassed that of Moscow for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
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