Beijing and Moscow advanced a vision of a new world order Wednesday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made his first visit to key ally China since his country launched its invasion of… Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attracted global attention when he rejected a U.S. offer to evacuate, replying defiantly, “The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.” That response “will… Read more »
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is poised to win Sunday’s general election by a comfortable margin, though not by enough to secure another supermajority, reports suggest. In a video speech to European Union leaders… Read more »
Myanmar rights groups have called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to probe human rights violations in the country’s jails and the use of sexual violence against… Read more »
The Russian military has abducted and killed a number of Ukrainian mayors, and the bodies of several have already been found, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with… Read more »
The war in Ukraine is raising particular concern in Taiwan where many see uncomfortable parallels with another authoritarian neighbor threatening a vulnerable democracy. “What people in Taiwan are seeing is… Read more »
No matter how tight his control over Russia has become, Vladimir Putin cannot alter a basic reality: his ability to carry out his war on Ukraine and his crackdown at… Read more »
For decades, Russian oligarchs have moved billions of dollars of ill-gotten money abroad – to make it extremely hard to trace. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, countries around the world… Read more »
Boris Nemtsov, a former opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin, was followed by an FSB agent linked to an assassination squad for almost a year before he was shot… Read more »
Just as the West overlooked abuses by anti-communist allies during the cold war, it will make ugly compromises now to counter Vladimir Putin’s revanchist Russia, The Economist suggests. Doing so… Read more »