Moscow

Montenegro's statistics agency, Monstat, said the price of new apartments sold in Montenegro in the fourth quarter of 2014 fell by 16.1 per cent compared to the previous year.

The drop is blamed on sharp falls in property values in the coastal town of Budva, the country's best known resort and for long the second home of thousands of wealthy Russians.

Heavy snowfall in Moscow has prompted authorities to cancel many flights from and to the Russian capital, officials say.

The move has been enforcef for all three international airports in Moscow: Vnukovo (20 flights canceled), Domodedovo (77) and Sheremetyevo (10).

Severe road conditions have also resulted in traffic jams across the city.

Amid international economic sanctions that have pounded Russia increasingly hard, Moscow is focusing its efforts on diversifying its energy-based economy with the help of innovation that brings not only commercial promises but also many existential paradoxes.

The missile shield in Deveselu is a concern for Moscow as it is a guarantee that Romania will not return to another influence sphere, said, on Tuesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu.

"No danger of Moscow's influence in Balkans"

BERLIN -- Brussels-based analyst Dušan Reljić says there is "no danger of Moscow applying political or military pressure on former Yugoslav republics or Albania."...

French President Francois Hollande said Nov. 16 he would  not be pressured into delivering two warships to Russia, after delaying their handover due to the Ukraine crisis.
      

In China, the Communists had just massacred the students in Tienanmen Square and won themselves another quarter-century in power. On the other hand, the Poles voted overwhelmingly for Solidarity in June, and by September Hungary had opened its border with the West.  But it was the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November, 1989, that really opened the flood-gates.

MOSCOW/ISTANBUL – Turkey and Latin American countries such as Brazil look likely to emerge as key winners from Russia’s decision to ban most European Union and US food imports in retaliation for Western sanctions over Moscow’s role in Ukraine.

MOSCOW - Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and his Belgrade counterpart Sinisa Mali agreed on Tuesday to sign a cooperation agreement between the two cities within three months.

Recent Government Moves Raise Concerns About Moscow's Influence in Former Client

The article is from the Wall Street Journal

Concerns are growing in some Western capitals that Bulgaria, for decades one of the Soviet bloc's most loyal members, could be falling back under Moscow's spell despite having been accepted years ago into Western alliances.