Category: 2. Editor’s Choice

Veronika Honkasalo is visibly shaken.

She has just emerged from a 3 ½-hour meeting that left the veteran member of Parliament reeling. The Foreign Affairs Committee has decided to back a bill that will take Finland out of the…

MOSCOW — Russia’s former deputy defense minister was convicted on Tuesday on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and handed a 13-year prison sentence in a high-profile case that exposed…

While Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia are all members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which the Kremlin sees as its uncontested sphere of influence, the authoritarian-leaning group…

KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian drone struck a Russian industrial plant some 800 miles from Ukraine, a local official said Tuesday, after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky prioritized the weapon’s development and Russia pounded Ukraine with…

Russia has rejected accusations from the Trump administration that it is attempting to “stall for time”, as negotiations with Ukraine and the US on bringing an end to the war grind to a halt.

The US’s envoy to the Ukraine War, Keith Kellogg, made…