Eastern Europe
War in Ukraine
A leaked Kremlin poll has revealed that public support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dropped significantly, with just one in four Russians now in favor. Published by the Kremlin’s Federal Guard
Dec. 1, 2022
War in Ukraine
Alexander Lukashenko, an erstwhile ally of Vladimir Putin, who has served as Belarus’s sole president since 1994, reportedly fears for his safety and believes he will be assassinated by Moscow, accord
Nov. 29, 2022
War in Ukraine
“The best way that outsiders can help Russia change is to ensure that Ukraine takes back Ukrainian territory and defeats the empire, renowned author and historian Anne Applebaum writes in the December
Nov. 28, 2022
War in Ukraine
In an interview with Yevgeny Kiselyov, international financier Bill Browder pondered over the location where Putin hid his money, who was behind the poisoning of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, and what
Nov. 27, 2022
Russia
It was 13 years ago this month that Sergei Magnitsky was killed in Moscow’s Butyrka prison. Just seven days before he would have had to have been released if he was not brought to trial after almost a
Nov. 25, 2022
Russia
Russian lawmakers unanimously approved a bill banning all forms of LGBTQ “propaganda” in a final reading Thursday, Nov. 24, as President Vladimir Putin seeks to promote his country as the antithesis
Nov. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Kremlin propagandists are floating the “absurd” idea that Ukraine is going to invade the Belgorod region in an attempt to scare its own public into raising their support for the war, according to the
Nov. 23, 2022
Russia
Winston Churchill in 1939 famously described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” And for decades, if not centuries, the Western fascination with Russia as some sort of exotic
Nov. 23, 2022
Russia
A Russian woman who harassed Ukrainian women on the streets of Germany and Austria has been permanently expelled from the country, it was confirmed on Nov. 21, 2022. A video of Yulia Prokhorova being
Nov. 22, 2022
Russia
A Russian state TV host has been rebuked on air by his fellow presenters after he called for Kyiv to be “destroyed” and Kharkiv to be “wiped off the face of the earth.” In a rare sign of disunity amon
Nov. 21, 2022
War in Ukraine
It is bizarre that calls for peace talks pick up every time Kyiv shows its ability to take back territory The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement is a domestic economic event. The audience understandably li
Nov. 21, 2022
War in Ukraine
Washington, D.C. Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine has soon nine months, but Russia loses ever more of Ukraine’s territory, while Ukraine has recorded three major victories
Nov. 19, 2022
NATO
NATO said Friday that two Russian fighter aircraft had conducted an “unsafe and unprofessional approach” towards alliance naval ships on routine operations in the Baltic Sea. NATO’s maritime command s
Nov. 19, 2022
Russia
Russia said Thursday, Nov. 17, that a Dutch court ruling over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 was politically motivated, adding the court was under “unprecedented pre
Nov. 18, 2022
War in Ukraine
Humiliated by Russia’s battlefield routs, Vladimir Putin faces risky choices: dig in for a long fight, escalate — and risk seeing the conflict spiral out of control — or seek a face-saving path to tal
Nov. 17, 2022
Kyiv Post journalist Anna Neplii was invited to speak at the opening ceremony of the Euro-Atlantic Resilience Forum in the Romanian Parliament on Nov. 15 in Bucharest. In her speech, she noted that to
Nov. 16, 2022