Ukraine disses HBO for hiring pro-Putin Serb to star in The White Lotus
KYIV — Ukraine has a problem with HBO’s casting for the third season of hit TV show The White Lotus. It’s got a pro-Putin actor in a starring role. “Miloš Biković, Serbian actor who has been...
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EU threatens to silence Hungary if it blocks Ukrainian funds
BRUSSELS — There’s a Hungarian saying for when things are not going well: “It is under the frog’s ass.” And things sure won’t go well for Hungary if it attempts to thwart European leaders when they...
View Article‘Putin to the gallows’: Russia couple held over anti-war napkins
A Russian court charged a St. Petersburg artist and her husband with terrorism for distributing napkins with Ukrainian-language anti-war messages, at least one of which allegedly called for the...
View ArticlePutin accuses Kyiv of downing Russia military plane carrying Ukraine POWs
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Kyiv for the crash of a military transport plane this week that Moscow claims killed dozens of people, mostly Ukrainian prisoners of war. But officials in...
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Putin challenger says ‘miracles’ are helping him upstage Russian leader
Putin’s against me but God’s on my side, says Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin. In recent weeks, long lines have formed outside Kremlin critic Nadezhdin’s make-shift campaign offices in...
View ArticleGeorgia PM Irakli Garibashvili resigns
BRUSSELS — Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced his resignation on Monday amid reports he’ll be replaced by the chairman of his ruling Georgian Dream party. Garibashvili, who had been...
View ArticleProbe opened into Latvian MEP accused of spying for Russia
The European Parliament on Monday launched an investigation into allegations that Tatjana Ždanoka, a Latvian member of the EU legislature, has been working as a Russian spy for years. The charges,...
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Anti-war Russians can’t beat Putin but still feel they’ve won
The contrast couldn’t be bigger. The last time thousands of Russians took to the streets in the wake of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, they were chased by riot police, beaten with batons...
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The EU’s Viktor Orbán problem: 9 times Hungarian leader has been a thorn in...
BRUSSELS — It’s time for another showdown. European leaders are bracing for yet another confrontation with Hungary’s turbulent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán when they convene in Brussels later this week...
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Putin challenger submits 105,000 signatures backing his election campaign
The elephant in the room can no longer be ignored by the Kremlin, says 60-year-old Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin, referring to himself. On Wednesday morning, he and his team delivered...
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In shadow of Trump, Putin and Orbán, EU struggles to get its act together on...
BRUSSELS — The European Union still has Ukraine’s back. That’s the message the EU wants to send to Kyiv this week, just before the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion. It wants to send that same...
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Ukraine and Russia battle over the bodies of plane crash casualties
KYIV — Russia is refusing to return the bodies of 65 Ukrainian POWs it says were killed in last week’s downing of a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport aircraft near the Russian border city of...
View ArticleSaving Conservatism: The center must hold
Tobias Ellwood is a British MP. He is a former officer in the British Army, Foreign Office Middle East minister and defense minister. He also served as chair of the Defense Select Committee in the...
View ArticleRussian police detain Western journalists at protest by soldiers’ wives
Russian law enforcement on Saturday detained journalists at a protest rally in Moscow in what appears to be a warning ahead of presidential elections next month. The protesting group of female...
View ArticleHBO drops pro-Kremlin actor from White Lotus after uproar
Miloš Biković was supposed to star in a new season of HBO’s hit TV drama The White Lotus. But that was before the Serb actor’s support for Russia and its invasion of Ukraine sparked an international...
View ArticleIs Tucker Carlson in Moscow for Putin? The pro-Kremlin crowd hopes so
Conservative polemicist Tucker Carlson, or someone who looks just like him, has been spotted in Moscow, to the great joy of the pro-Kremlin community. On Sunday, a Telegram channel considered close to...
View ArticleUK heads for EU showdown as Russian gas keeps flowing
LONDON — The U.K. is heading for another clash with its European allies — this time over Russian gas. U.K. Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho will later this month urge European neighbors to stop...
View ArticleIran: Here we go with another game of whack-a-mole
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. U.S. President Joe Biden is getting drawn into a game of whack-a-mole eagerly engineered by Iran. Up pop the Tehran-backed Houthis, threatening...
View ArticleAnti-war Putin challenger faces disqualification from Russian election race
Boris Nadezhdin’s presidential race is likely to end before it really begins. On Monday, the Russian Central Election Commission’s (CEC) working group recommended Nadezhdin not be registered as a...
View ArticleRussia blacklists 2 US journalists
While American polemicist Tucker Carlson tours Moscow ahead of a rumored interview with President Vladimir Putin, two U.S.-based journalists have been branded “extremists and terrorists” by Russian...
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