Growing Russia-Ukraine tensions: a timeline
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia, accused of massing troops near its border and on the Crimean peninsula it annexed in 2014, have intensified since the start of the year. A timeline.
At EU’s Moldova-Romania frontier, pandemic lays bare inequality
So far, non-EU member Moldova has received barely enough vaccine doses for three percent of its population, while Romania, an EU member since 2007, has administered almost three million
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine takes key step to EU approval
Europe's drug regulator has launched an in-depth review of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, putting it on course to be the first non-Western jab used across the 27-nation EU
Why has the EU not approved Russia’s Sputnik jab?
Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is still waiting for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to start the countdown to its launch across the 27-nation bloc
EU still smarting over expulsion of diplomats seen at Navalny demo
The tension grows between Russia and the European Union as Russia expells three EU diplomats - from Germany, Poland and Sweden - for their alleged participation in rallies supporting jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
EU sends top envoy to Moscow as Navalny controversy grows
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell jets to Moscow on Thursday under pressure to confront the Kremlin over the jailing of Alexei Navalny and a crackdown on protesters
New START: expiring arms accord between Cold War rivals
Russia and the United States have until February 5 to prolong a key agreement to curb their nuclear arsenals, the last remaining arms reduction pact between the former Cold War rivals
Europe vaccine rollout shifts up a gear as supply worries linger
France and Russia prepare to beef up their coronavirus inoculation programmes, even as authorities seek to allay concerns about vaccine supplies while the global pandemic shows no sign of abating
How the world has sped up vaccine approvals
As Britain becomes the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use, authorities in Europe, the US, Russia and China have also sped up their approval procedures
EU eyes vaccinations within months as cases top 1 million in Italy
The European Union expresses hope it can start vaccinating people against Covid-19 in early 2021, as Italy records more than one million cases and Britain's death toll surpasses the 50,000 mark