Moldovan authorities and opposition leaders agreed on Tuesday to a recount of votes cast in Sunday’s parliamentary election, Russian news agencies reported, after demonstrators seized the president’s offices. Some 10,000 demonstrators massed for a second day in the capital of Europe’s poorest country to denounce the victory by the Communist …

Russia threatened to fine Ukraine on Tuesday for failing to buy enough gas in the first quarter, increasing pressure on its neighbour at a time when the World Bank said Kiev’s economy was contracting fast. Alexei Miller, chief executive of Russia’s state-run gas giant Gazprom, told Reuters the corporation was …

Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday challenged President Dmitry Medvedev from the dock of a Moscow court to stand by his promise to keep the judiciary independent of the Kremlin. The former boss of oil group YUKOS, on trial on new charges that could keep him in jail for …