The Latest Breaking News from Eastern Europe

The UK is to deploy hundreds more soldiers to Estonia in June to help bolster defences in the face of Russian aggression and will also form two new headquarters in the Baltics

It is commonplace these days to invoke the fears that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has awoken in Eastern Europe. With the 2008 invasion still fresh in the minds, the Black Sea nation of Georgia is also bracing itself against the Russian bear.

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned crypto mining firm BitRiver, targeting one of the industry’s top data-center service providers over its operations in Russia, Bloomberg reported. The Swiss-based company BitRiver provides Bitcoin miners worldwide with energy sources, mining facilities, and large-scale management solutions, including those in Eastern Europe and Russia.  Treasury announced…

Grid Dynamics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:GDYN) announced an upward revision of its Q1 2022 financial performance outlook. Grid Dynamics raised its Q1 quarterly revenue guidance to at least $65 million from the previous guidance of $55 million - $60 million, against the consensus of $57.3 million. Grid Dynamics continues to swiftly grow its engineering…

The United States should look at the development of more bases in Eastern Europe to protect against Russian aggression, but rotate forces through them rather than make permanent deployments, the top USmilitary officer told Congress on Tuesday. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the…

The top U.S. military officer says the United States should look at the development of more bases in Eastern Europe to protect against Russian aggression

Genentech, a member of the Roche Holdings AG (OTC:RHHBY), announced new Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) data shows a benefit on disease progression and cognitive outcomes in primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS0 and secondary progressive MS (SPMS). The company noted that 75% of patients achieved no evidence of progression (NEP) in a one-year interim analysis of the…

Russia's invasion of Ukraine should prompt a re-examination of NATO's permanent presence in eastern Europe, the U.S. general that serves as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe told Congress on Wednesday.

During World War II, one of the worst massacres of the conflict took place in Eastern Europe, in Romania's second city of Iași. A tenth of the city's population – more than 13,000 people – was murdered in the space of a few days, simply because they were Jews. More…