Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent
BBCViktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 in a part of Ukraine now occupied by Russian forces.
It took nine…
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Ukrainian journalist who chronicled Russian occupation dies in prison
BBCViktoriia Roshchyna was detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine -
Autocrats United: How Russia and Iran Defy the U.S.-Led Global Order
Few geopolitical alignments are more consequential to global security and world order than the Russia-Iran partnership of defiance. Tehran and Moscow are co-belligerents in two of the world’s deadliest conflicts—in Ukraine and Syria—and…
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Russia on ‘mission to cause mayhem’ on British streets, warns MI5 head
More than 750 Russian diplomats had been expelled from Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “the great majority of them” spies, Mr McCallum said.
This affected the Russian intelligence services’ capability, he explained, and added that…
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How Serious a Threat Is Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced imminent changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine. Those changes, announced in public comments at the start of a Security Council meeting on September 25, amount to a lowering of the threshold for…
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A Strategy to Reform the European Economic Model
The long-awaited Draghi report could serve as a roadmap for the new European Commission by proposing radical changes to the European Union’s economic policy. The author, former prime minister of Italy and former president of the…
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AI can boost growth and make Europe more competitive
There are few more pressing questions facing European governments than how to drive economic growth and make the region more competitive. And it’s clear that one of the most important ways to boost the EU’s competitiveness is by harnessing AI…
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Regulating Chinese EV Manufacturing Investment in Europe – Rhodium Group
European countries have revamped their approaches to vetting foreign investments in recent years to protect sensitive industries and critical infrastructure. But the regulatory changes have focused primarily on the threat of…
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How would Trump and Harris handle the Russia-Ukraine war?
Ukraine and its war with Russia have become a central and controversial topic in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. The brutal conflict, in which a million people have been killed or severely injured, shows no signs of ending. Kamala…
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The Abandonment of Ukraine – The Atlantic
On a recent trip to Ukraine, we walked through the rubble of a children’s hospital in Kyiv targeted by the Russians, toured an apartment building in Kharkiv where floor after floor had been destroyed by Russian missiles, and visited the front…
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The Country’s Propagandists Target the West—but Mislead the Kremlin, Too
In early September, the infamous Russian disinformation project known as Doppelganger hit the news again. Doppelganger—a scheme to disseminate fake articles, videos, and polls about polarizing political and cultural issues in the United States,…
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