Ukraine’s Zelenskyy rejects Macron’s Olympic truce proposal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected a call by French President Emmanuel Macron for a truce in the Ukraine-Russia war during the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Russia would use any...
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Europe, Israel and the International Criminal Court
James A. Goldston is the executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu preemptively blasted what some reports suggested were imminent...
View Article‘A true friend’: Russia, China offer condolences after death of Iran’s President
Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping offered condolences after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash in a mountainous region of northern...
View ArticleRussia says it’s still waiting for France’s D-Day invitation, amid...
PARIS — Russia said Tuesday it has not yet received an invitation to the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, despite France having said it would invite Russia to the commemorations. “This...
View ArticlePutin starts tactical nuke drills near Ukraine
Russia on Tuesday announced it has started tactical nuclear weapons exercises near Ukraine, as Moscow again accused the West of being “provocative.” The Kremlin’s Southern Military District troops...
View ArticleGermany’s liberal defense hawk knocks Paris for scrimping on military aid to...
BERLIN — Germany’s Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the Free Democratic Party’s top candidate for the upcoming EU election, has urged France to hasten weapons deliveries to Ukraine as it struggles to...
View ArticlePutin has ‘both eyes’ on Gotland, warns Sweden’s army chief
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has his eyes on the Swedish island of Gotland, warned Sweden’s defense chief Micael Bydén. Gotland, Sweden’s largest island and comparable in size to the smallest U.S....
View ArticleWhy is the steering wheel Chinese?! Russian PM jabs domestic carmaker over...
So much for Moscow’s “no-limits” partnership with Beijing. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin isn’t impressed with the use of Chinese car parts in Russian-made vehicles. While viewing new models...
View ArticleZelenskyy planning to join D-Day and G7 events
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aims to attend next month’s D-Day commemoration in France followed by the G7 meeting in Italy, two people familiar with the planning said. Zelenskyy’s plans are...
View ArticleNavalny was ‘murdered’ on Putin’s direct orders, key opposition figure alleges
LONDON — Alexei Navalny was murdered on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the late opposition leader’s former chief of staff, Leonid Volkov. Speaking to POLITICO’s Power...
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The Kremlin’s growing influence in Orbán’s Hungary
Edit Zgut-Przybylska is an assistant professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, a research affiliate at the Central European University Democracy Institute and co-author of the book “Russia and the...
View ArticleNavalny’s fight for a democratic Russia survives, insists key ally
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast Amazon Music Host Anne McElvoy talks to Leonid Volkov, who was Alexei Navalny’s long-serving chief of staff and campaign manager, about his mission to...
View ArticlePutin’s purge ramps up as another general arrested over bribes
The Kremlin escalated its crackdown on Russia’s top military ranks, with a new corruption arrest this week. Russian authorities detained Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, deputy to General Valery...
View ArticleEuropean Court affirms Georgia’s jailing of former leader Saakashvili
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that authorities in Georgia acted properly in 2014 when bringing criminal charges for abuse of power and complicity in criminal battery against former...
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A $50B US-EU deal for Ukraine is in sight
STRESA, Italy — The U.S. and the EU are overcoming their differences and edging closer to an agreement to secure a massive loan for Ukraine — using Russian assets frozen in the West as collateral....
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How Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service — and is now gunning for its government
How Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service — and is now gunning for its government Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscow’s...
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Netanyahu case will make or break the ICC
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has long been dogged by questions over its credibility and relevance, and it has faced a torrent of criticism...
View ArticleUS announces travel ban for Georgian Dream politicians behind ‘foreign agent’...
TBILISI, Georgia — Politicians and officials in Georgia responsible for pushing through a controversial bill that would brand Western-funded NGOs and media outlets as “foreign agents” will face visa...
View ArticlePutin’s Estonia provocation rings alarm bells in the Baltics
Russia can’t resist testing the Baltic waters. Just a day after the the Kremlin’s defense ministry deleted a threat to redraw borders in the Baltic Sea earlier this week, Russian border guards removed...
View ArticleHungary looking to redefine its NATO membership
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday his country was looking to redefine its membership in NATO to ensure the country cannot be involved in operations outside of the military alliance’s...
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