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Crimea

Euroviews. Putin's Crimea invasion, five years later: Nationalism doesn't pay the bills ǀ View

Average Russians no longer want to threaten — or annex — the world. They want to engage with it.

World News

Has life improved for people in Crimea since its annexation?

What is life like on the peninsula five years since Russia announced its accession?

Crimea

Putin arrives in Crimea to mark fifth anniversary of annexation

President Vladimir Putin arrived in Crimea on the fifth anniversary of the annexation and inaugurated two power stations.

Ukraine

What is the Ukrainian government's 'blacklist'? | Euronews answers

Russians dominate the list as tensions between Moscow and Kiev have reached a post-Soviet era high. What is the list about and who is on it?

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Russia

Russia triumphs at Ice Climbing World Championships

Russia enjoyed a clean sweep in the speed category at the Ice Climbing World Championships in Kirov at the weekend.

Azerbaijan

Ural Airlines jet makes emergency landing in Baku over bomb threat

A Russian passenger jet made an emergency landing in Baku, Azerbaijan on Monday because of a suspected bomb on board the plane. It was a false alarm.

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Russian prison inmates compete during Maslenitsa festivities

Positive recommendations by penitentiary authorities following their participation in the festival can count favourably towards the inmates being paroled.

Europe News

Nikol Pashinyan: Armenia will not be authoritarian

Armenian Prime Minister answered Euronews questions on his foreign policy, cooperation with EU, energy security. Nikol Pashinyan denies that Yerevan is balancing between Moscow and Brussels.

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Crimea marks Women's Day with combat gear and flowers

Masked activists in military fatigues fanned out across the Crimean city of Simferopol on Thursday (March 7) handing out flowers to women ahead of International Women's Day and the fifth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation by Russia

World News

Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort gets 4-year jail term for fraud

The 47-month sentence follows the lobbyist’s conviction last year for tax and bank fraud.

Russia

What is Russia's new 'fake news' law all about? | Euronews answers

People who spread what Russian authorities consider to be fake news or who show "disrespect" to the state will face tough new fines.

Russia

Watch: Russian jet intercepts US spy plane

Russian defence ministry says the American aircraft was heading towards its borders.

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Ice-skaters brave the cold in Siberia for a race on the world's deepest lake

Swimsuit wearing ice-skaters braved the Siberian cold to take part in a race on Lake Baikal on Saturday.

USA

Warner: "Enormous evidence" of contacts between Trump campaign and Russia

The top Democrat on Senate Intelligence Committee says Trump campaign's contact with Russians during 2016 was historically unprecedented.

Russia

Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov dies at 88

Alferov was a Russian scientist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics.

Bulgaria

Borissov assures NATO Bulgaria is not Russia's 'Trojan horse'

Borissov voiced concern over the possibility of an escalation in the arms race between NATO and Russia and told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that Bulgaria will not be used as a 'Trojan horse' of Russia. Stoltenberg praised Bulgaria’s commitment to NATO during a visit to Sofia on Friday.

My Europe Series

The art of no deal, malign influences and campaign compass

This week, all eyes were on the second summit between Donald Trump and North Korea's strongman Kim Jong-Un. Meanwhile in Europe, the rise of populists has the Greens concerned, while some pundits say populism could boost voter turnout in May.

Europe News

'There is this constant fear of the threat of Russian malign influence'

Euronews speaks to US ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland about his recent trip to Ukraine.

Russia

Russia set to free 100 captive whales from 'prison'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been heavily criticised over a "whale prison" in the far east of the country, which is run by companies involved in trafficking.

World

EU says social media giants falling short on disinformation strategy

With less than 100 days to go until the European Parliament elections, a European Commission report has raised concerns about Russian interference.