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Germany’s Ukraine policy is incoherent for a reason
BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sown confusion and consternation across Europe for adopting contradictory positions on Ukraine, but there’s a method to his madness. Scholz has perplexed his...
View ArticleBelgium exists largely ‘thanks to Russia,’ Putin claims
Russian pseudo-historian-in-chief Vladimir Putin has delivered his latest twisted history lesson: Belgium owes its existence to Russia. According to the Russian president, Belgium first “appeared on...
View ArticlePutin vowed to protect pro-Russia Moldovan region, its leader says
Transnistria isn’t Moldova’s only problem child. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week he would support Moldova’s autonomous region of Gagauzia after meeting the territory’s pro-Moscow...
View ArticleVon der Leyen launches EU campaign by slamming Marine Le Pen’s party as...
BUCHAREST — Ursula von der Leyen launched her campaign for another five years running the European Commission by taking aim at France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party, led by Marine Le Pen. “We...
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Moldova turns to France in face of threats from Putin
PARIS — France doesn’t want Moldova to be the next Ukraine. On Thursday, the two countries signed a deal to boost military cooperation. The pact comes as the Kremlin turns its gaze on the country of...
View ArticleBiden’s speech thrills Ukraine watchers. Others, not so much.
WASHINGTON — In the days before President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address, a handful of international diplomats and American foreign policy players shared with me their fantasy...
View ArticleInfighting is tearing apart DC’s key bulwark against Putin
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is one of those Cold War-era Washington relics that acquired a new relevance after Russia invaded...
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Meet the Russian women taking on Putin
Three days after news broke of Alexei Navalny’s death, his wife Yulia announced she would take over his cause. “We need to form one strong fist and use it to strike this crazy regime,” she urged in a...
View ArticleBoris Johnson flew to Venezuela to hold secret talks with Maduro
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew to Venezuela last month to meet with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in unofficial talks. During the meeting, first reported by the Sunday...
View ArticleMacron delays Kyiv visit amid tensions over Ukraine comments
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has pushed back a long-planned visit to Ukraine amid tensions with allies over his increasingly hawkish comments on Russia. The visit has been delayed several...
View ArticleUS presses Austria’s Raiffeisen to quit Russia
Washington is tightening the screws on the last remaining banks in Europe still doing business with Russia. The Treasury’s top sanctions enforcement official, Acting Assistant Secretary Anna Morris,...
View ArticleSick of EU red tape? Bring your green money here, Ukraine says
BRUSSELS — When Volodymyr Kudrytskyi severed Ukraine’s power grid from Russia and Belarus on Feb. 24, 2022, it was just supposed to be for a three-day stress test. Two hours later, Russia invaded....
View ArticleMacron corners far left, far right with vote on Ukraine aid
French lawmakers have approved a security agreement with Ukraine in a symbolic vote which forced opposition parties to publicly reveal their doubts about sending military aid to Kyiv. Seven of the 10...
View ArticleRussia ‘ready’ for nuclear war, Putin claims
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the Kremlin is “ready” for nuclear war with the West, in his latest saber-rattling comments. “From a military-technical point of view, of course, we are...
View ArticleWarsaw coughs up €30M for bomb shelters with eye on aggressive Putin
Warsaw’s mayor on Wednesday announced a new plan to allocate 117 million złoty (€27 million) to build bomb shelters and other security measures in the next two to three years. The move comes as...
View ArticleHitler didn’t quit in 1938 and Putin won’t stop at Ukraine, Lithuanian leader...
PARIS — There’s a historical parallel between Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda warned on Wednesday. “Just as Czechoslovakia did not...
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Hammer attack on Navalny ally likely a warning to Russian opposition,...
The attack on Leonid Volkov didn’t come as a complete surprise — either to the Russian opposition figure who was assaulted by an assailant wielding a hammer Tuesday evening or to the government of...
View ArticleRussia-Ukraine war: Don’t mention the peace
In the months before Russia invaded Ukraine, many European leaders buried their heads in the sand, refusing to acknowledge the impending threat of war. Now, with the conflict into its third year, they...
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Ursula von der Leyen’s reelection campaign gets off to a bumpy start
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen hasn’t named a campaign director yet to lead her bid for a second term at the head of the EU executive — but campaign hostilities have already started. Only days after...
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Armenia’s EU dream faces a big obstacle: The Russian army
YEREVAN, Armenia — A massive portrait of Vladimir Putin watches over the road along the Armenian border with Azerbaijan. “Together forever,” reads the slogan next to the Russian president on the...
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