Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns amid pressure from his party to step down ahead of elections due in July.

• June 2, 2010

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said at a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today that the bloc is seriously concerned about the situation in Russia for human rights activists and journalists.

• June 2, 2010

Vilnius is hosting the Baltic Development Forum and the Baltic Sea States Summit. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is expected to meet on Wednesday with regional representatives, including the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Norway.

• June 2, 2010

Russia needs to modernize its economy and shun protectionism to gain access to Western investment, the European Union said Tuesday

• June 2, 2010

Despite seemingly encouraging words about freedom of speech from Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, Russian opposition activists were again beaten and detained when they tried to hold peaceful protests across the country yesterday.

• June 1, 2010

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission (EC) have not changed their position, and continue to support Latvia's chosen economic program based on preserving the current valuation of the national currency and gaining entry to the eurozone, LETA was informed by the IMF representative office in Latvia.

• June 1, 2010

Alyaksandr Lukashenka's support is waning — both domestically and from Russia — and he now looks the the most vulnerable he has done for years. Yet the opposition's failure to unite behind a single candidate still seems set to hand him victory in the upcoming presidential election.

• June 1, 2010

Since this winter's presidential election, in which pro-Russian Victor Yanukovich emerged the victor, Ukraine has experienced a massive turnaround.

• June 1, 2010