Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ingush protesters take part in a rally against a controversial 2018 land swap deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya The authorities are accused of stifling media freedom and of silencing opposition. The meagre local media scene…
Image source, AFPImage caption, The networks promotes Russia's Wagner mercenariesBy Grigor AtanesianGlobal Disinformation Team A large social network that promotes anti-Western and pro-Kremlin ideas is helping Russia expand its influence at the expense of France in some of its former…
Vladimir Putin insists Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” but his brutal invasion of Ukraine has revealed a remarkable lack of “brotherly” Russian empathy for Ukrainians. While many people in other former Soviet republics have identified with Ukraine’s suffering, Russian…
The country reduced its Russian gas dependency from 97% to 3-4% in eight months, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Tuesday. The country replaced its Russian gas with gas imports from Norway and overseas LNG imports, which are distributed…
Citizens gathered in Pristina to protest against the demand for the Association of Serb Municipalities on the day the US Embassy called a closed-door meeting to discuss its formation, even against the government’s will. The Association was agreed upon in…
The hours leading up to the meeting have highlighted the differences between the White House and the Republicans who now control the House. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The F.B.I. appeared to be blinded by a lack of imagination, a narrow focus on “lone wolf” offenders and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right, new congressional…
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky: the EuU and member states actually contributed slightly more to Ukraine than the US did last year (Photo: European Commission) Let’s look at the numbers: the European Union…
The conservative CDU is leading the polls with 23% as the traditionally left-leaning capital of Berlin is gearing up for an election re-run on 12 February that the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of Tuesday following 2021’s botched elections. Berlin…
Former Prime Ministers Peter Pellegrini and Robert Fico, both of whom belong to Hlas-SD and Smer-SD respectively, are leading the polls ahead of autumn elections, and as both parties have been drifting away from EU policy, the election results could…