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The winter holidays have only just ended here, but many Russians are already planning their next European getaway, buying plane tickets and reserving hotels. They are also compiling bank statements, gathering insurance forms, paying fees, taking photographs, making photocopies, waiting in long lines and being interrogated by embassy officials — all to receive a European visa, a kind of permission slip to enter the rest of the Continent that like little else underscores the walls still dividing Russia from the West.

Germany is considering a plan with its European Union partners to offer Greece and other troubled euro-zone members loan guarantees in an effort to calm fears of a government default and prevent a widening of the credit woes, people familiar with the matter said.

A think-tank close to President Dmitry Medvedev has released a report recommending a radical overhaul of Russia’s political system, including a return to gubernatorial elections, the disbanding of the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry, and Russia’s accession to NATO and the European Union.

After Ireland finally backs European reform, a campaign is under way to prevent the ascent of the former PM to the top job (salary: £247,000 per annum)

Iran's traditional emblem has been the Persian lion. Russia's should be a vulture: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin intends to feed on the carcass left by any confrontation with Iran.

This week's much-anticipated European Union-commissioned report into the causes of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008 predictably spread the blame for the conflict around. While Georgia was also censured, the text is devastating to Russia's narrative of the conflict.

A summit between the leaders of the world’s two nuclear superpowers no longer dominates the global stage as in the cold war.

The fall of the Czech ruling coalition led by Mirek Topolanek comes against a bleak economic backdrop shared by much of central and eastern Europe. But its underlying cause is the chronic weakness of the Prague administration. The collapse of the government also severely damages the Czech presidency of the European Union, which was already looking accident-prone.

The leadership of the European Union was plunged into disarray last night when the Government holding the rotating presidency collapsed after losing a vote of no confidence in the Czech parliament.

Despite a Negative Track Record, the EU Appears Willing to Believe Whatever the Ukrainian Officials Say