The runic inscriptions from Eastern Europe lack a dedicated corpus edition, but here the best attempts to describe these inscriptions are discussed. Unfortunately, the main work in this field, Elena A. Mel′nikova’s Skandinavskie runičeskie nadpisi (‘Scandinavian runic inscriptions’), lacks a clear method for distinguishing between runic, rune-like and non-runic inscriptions. For this reason, many of its inscriptions should be treated with great caution and some are here deemed not to be runic.