The Latest Breaking News from Eastern Europe

First Lady Jill Biden is departing on a trip to Eastern Europe to visit Ukrainian refugees, as well as U.S. personnel in the region. It's her most high-profile endeavor since her husband took office.

The annual sunflower (Helianthus annus) has a long history in North America, with evidence of its cultivation for food, ceremonial and medical use by Native Americans dating back to at least 1,000 B.C. Sunflower seeds are said to have been brought to Europe by Spanish explorers around the late 16th…

Far from home and unsure when or even if they will ever return, Ukrainians displaced by war gathered at churches across Eastern Europe on Sunday for the Orthodox Easter holiday

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…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and leaders of NATO allies agreed to double the organization's troop presence in Eastern Europe Thursday during a flurry of wartime summitry in Brussels, an effort to keep the alliance united in its effort to isolate and punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.