Russian oligarch files $16B claim against Luxembourg over frozen assets
Russian-Israeli oligarch Mikhail Fridman has filed a $16 billion claim against Luxembourg over its decision to freeze his assets after he was placed on the European Union’s sanctions list. In...
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Ukraine’s raid into Russia has shifted the tactical narrative
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region last week caught Russian President Vladimir Putin and his generals unprepared....
View ArticleUS offers quiet support for Ukraine after Kursk incursion deals Putin a major...
Officials in Washington are offering more public praise for Kyiv’s surprise incursion into Russian territory, as Ukraine has managed to embarrass Russian President Vladimir Putin, scramble the...
View ArticleAs Kyiv makes gains in Kursk, Russia strikes back in Donetsk
KYIV — Russia is evacuating another district in its Kursk region, the regional governor announced overnight, as Ukraine’s forces continue to make gains in the area. Ukrainian forces have secured their...
View Article‘Irregular heartbeat’: Russian authorities attempt to explain Alexei...
Six months after the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a prison north of the Arctic, Russian authorities have formally concluded there was nothing suspicious about it. A formal...
View ArticleBiden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine
The Biden administration is “open” to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, a move that would give Kyiv’s F-16s greater combat punch as it seeks to gain further momentum in its fight against...
View ArticleKremlin ally Belarus calls for peace in Russia-Ukraine ‘scuffle’
Belarusian President and key Putin ally Aleksandr Lukashenko has called for peace between Russia and Ukraine as Kyiv’s incursion into the Kursk region of Russia enters its third week. His plea,...
View ArticleUkraine destroys second bridge in Kursk region
Ukrainian forces destroyed a second bridge across the Seim River in Russia’s Kursk region, officials said, just days after a separate crossing was targeted in the same region as Kyiv continues its...
View ArticleUkraine’s incursion into Russia could change everything, US senator says
Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday that Ukraine’s decision to counter the ongoing Russian invasion by attacking Russia itself could change how that war plays out. Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the...
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China threat prompts Japan to rethink its security
Alexander Görlach writes about democracies in East Asia. He teaches democratic theory at New York University. Japan’s foreign and security policy orbit sits far from Europe’s east, with Tokyo around...
View ArticleElon Musk denies gifting Chechen warlord a Tesla truck
Elon Musk on Monday denied that he gifted Chechnya’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov a Cybertruck. “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk...
View ArticleRussia bans George Clooney’s ‘undesirable’ foundation
Russian authorities on Monday declared Hollywood star George Clooney’s nonprofit foundation “undesirable,” prohibiting it from operating in Russia. The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) was founded...
View ArticleZelenskyy calls out US, UK, France over slow weapons deliveries
KYIV — As Ukraine gains territory inside Russia but is pushed back in its own Donetsk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heaped pressure on his Western allies for more help. “Our guys are doing...
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Putin is paralyzed in crisis – again
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainian military officials are perplexed. They’d expected a bigger and much more ferocious pushback to their surprise incursion into the Kursk...
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Ukraine wants peace talks in wake of Russia incursion, but not directly with...
KYIV — Ukraine’s attack into Russia is strengthening Kyiv’s hand to push for peace talks, potentially using a framework that could proceed even as the Kremlin refuses to send its diplomats to...
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Azerbaijan launches bid to join BRICS after Putin visit
The BRICS group of emerging economies could soon have a new member, with Azerbaijan having announced its intention to sign up to the club. In a statement on Tuesday, Aykhan Hajizade, spokesperson for...
View Article5 global trends that will shape the US election
PARIS — As inward looking as Americans can be, it’s worth remembering that our politics don’t live in a vacuum. Eight summers ago, Britain’s stunner of a vote to leave the European Union foretold the...
View ArticleDonald Trump rages at claim Queen Elizabeth II found him ‘very rude’
LONDON — Donald Trump on Thursday angrily dismissed a claim that Queen Elizabeth II found him “very rude” — and described himself instead as the late monarch’s “favorite president.” A “Voyage Around...
View ArticlePutin on Kursk failure: Not my fault
President Vladimir Putin has a message for the Russian region where Ukraine has seized more than 1,000 square kilometers of territory: Don’t blame me. Speaking via videoconference to a meeting of...
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West’s Ukraine policy of incrementalism is appeasement-light — and it’s failing
Andrew Chakhoyan is an academic director at the University of Amsterdam. He previously served in the U.S. government and oversaw regional government affairs at the World Economic Forum (covering...
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