A legal outrage with political objectives

A regional election for the Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community was held on the 12th July.

EH Bildu obtained an outstanding result with an increase of 4 seats and of 6% of the vote.

As the UCL’s School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies graduate and an analyst with years of Russia-related research experience I have come across a wide range of Western social science literature on Russian state media, where the tags ‘propaganda’, ‘populism’ and ‘lies’ feature more than prominently.

With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the Government’s ongoing work to secure a Brexit deal that honours our commitments to the people of Northern Ireland, commands the support of Parliament and can be negotiated with the EU.

Russian gas major Gazprom has filed a countersuit in a Kiev court against the Ukrainian Antimonopoly Committee. The watchdog has accused the Russian firm of abusing its dominant position in Ukraine's gas transit market and orders it to pay a $3.4 billion fine, RT informs on Wednesday.

Two Russian military war planes flew close to a US Navy destroyer on Wednesday in the Baltic Sea in what American officials described as a "simulated attack".

The Dutch government said on Wednesday a clear majority of people who voted in a referendum rejected a far-reaching European Union free trade deal with Ukraine, but an exit poll showed turnout may have been too low for the vote to be valid.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has approved sanctions against individuals involved in the trial of the recently convicted Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, according to a decree published on the president's official website on Wednesday, The Moscow Times informs.

The Sputnik new agency was served notice on the closure of its Internet resource in Latvia’s national domain zone on March 29.

Fidel Castro has broken his silence over President Obama's Cuba visit in a damning letter published in state-run newspaper Granma, BBC informs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin received in the Kremlin US Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr Kerry arrived for a meeting with the Russian President after his talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 24.

U.S. President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba appeared together on Monday morning, walking side by side at a welcoming ceremony to start the first official talks between their two governments after decades of Cold War animosity.