A protest was held in Moscow over the arrest of Sputnik Lithuania’s Marat Kasem Dozens of people, including Rossiya Segodnya media group boss Dmitry Kiselyov, as well as journalist Pyotr Lidov-Petrovsky and Russian MP Maria Butina, picketed the Latvian embassy in Moscow on Friday, demanding the release of Marat Kasem.

The fast-food giant is planning to let some of its staff go amid restaurant expansion, a memo to employees reportedly says McDonald’s plans to cut some of its corporate staff this year amid reorganization, several media outlets reported on Saturday, citing a letter to employees from CEO Chris Kempczinski.

The situation is most dire in Greece, where more than half of respondents are struggling to pay bills, a think tank has found More than a quarter of Europeans are experiencing problems heating their homes and paying debts for housing and utilities, the Hungarian media reported on Friday citing a survey by the Szazadveg think…