Hungary's state airline Malev stopped flying after 66 years on Friday, citing bankruptcy, amid debts to creditors that include 100 million euros ($130 million) owed to VEB. Hungary's state airline Malev stopped flying after 66 years on Friday, citing bankruptcy, amid debts to creditors that include 100 million euros ($130 million) owed to VEB. The decision was prompted by a European Commission demand that Malev pay back state aid it had received between 2007 and 2010, the airline...

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Sweden will open a new investigation into what happened to World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg after he was captured by the Soviets in 1945. STOCKHOLM — Sweden will open a new investigation into what happened to World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg after he was captured by the Soviets in 1945. 
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has asked experts to look into whether any new material has emerged that could shed light on what happened to the Swedish diplomat, Bildt's spokeswoman...

American television channel Comedy Central is set to make its debut in the Russian market in April. American television channel Comedy Central is set to make its debut in the Russian market in April, Kommersant reported Tuesday. The U.S. channel already broadcasts in many European markets, including Germany, Spain and Hungary. Earlier this year the channel's owner Viacom announced its intention to launch the channel in Asian and Latin American markets. In its home market, the channel has become...

Gazprom boosted daily production by 20 percent to 30 percent to 1.6 billion cubic meters per day. Gazprom boosted daily production by 20 percent to 30 percent to 1.6 billion cubic meters per day, RIA-Novosti reported, citing deputy chief executive Andrei Kruglov. That's 300 million to 400 million cubic meters more than last year's levels, the news service reported Saturday. Nonetheless, "Gazprom isn't currently able to meet the additional gas volumes requested by our partners...

Average food import tariffs in Russia will drop from the current 10 percent to 7.8 percent as soon as Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization is complete, but challenges remain in taking advantage of the new status, industry experts agreed during the Food Business Summit in Moscow on Thursday. Average food import tariffs in Russia will drop from the current 10 percent to 7.8 percent as soon as Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization...

A newly discovered Swedish document shows how the Soviet secret police intervened in the early 1990s to stop an investigation into World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg's fate. STOCKHOLM — A newly discovered Swedish document shows how the Soviet secret police intervened in the early 1990s to stop an investigation into World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg's fate, two U.S.-based researchers said Monday. The Swedish diplomat, who would have turned 100 this year, is credited...

Europe's outgoing human rights chief has some advice for the Latvian national who will succeed him: travel to Russia often to win the respect of local officials and press them hard to fulfill their promises. Europe's outgoing human rights chief has some advice for the Latvian national who will succeed him: travel to Russia often to win the respect of local officials and press them hard to fulfill their promises. Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe's human...

Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler's &quot;The Decline of the West,&quot; prophecies about the inexorable doom of what he called the &quot;Faustian Civilization&quot; have been a recurrent topic for intellectuals. Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West," prophecies about the inexorable doom of what he called the "Faustian Civilization"...

A former senior Russian archive official says he saw a file that could shed light on Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg's fate — challenging the FSB's insistence that it has no documents about the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews before disappearing into the hands of Soviet secret police. A former senior Russian archive official says he saw a file that could shed light on Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg's fate — challenging the FSB's insistence...

When Wieslaw Radzieciak took office as the mayor of Lesniowice in the gently rolling farmland of southeastern Poland 26 years ago, the Soviet garrisons that dotted the region were a stark reminder of which superpower was in control. LESNIOWICE, Poland — When Wieslaw Radzieciak took office as the mayor of Lesniowice in the gently rolling farmland of southeastern Poland 26 years ago, the Soviet garrisons that dotted the region were a stark reminder...