Fur-clad Swedish leader in East European city (5)
I believe the answer is:
minsk
'european city' is the definition.
(capital of Belarus)
'fur-clad swedish leader' is the wordplay.
'fur' becomes 'mink' (mink is a kind of fur).
'clad' means one lot of letters goes inside another (clad can mean covered by).
'leader' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'swedish' is 's'.
'mink' placed around 's' is 'MINSK'.
'in east' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for minsk that I've seen before include "Capital of Belarus" , "capital city" , "City of Belarus" , "E European capital" , "Russian city" .)