In this week's newsletter, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak drills down on two issues: When Russia could get sanctions relief and Marco Rubio’s first NATO ministerial
A week after major steps toward a Ukraine cease-fire were announced, the push for peace is fraying, roiled by Zelenskyy’s pushback on a US-proposed minerals deal and by Trump’s comments that he was “very angry” at Putin.
More than 800,000 undocumented Afghan refugees living in Pakistan face deportation. Islamabad has set a March 31 deadline for them to leave voluntarily or be forcibly expelled.
Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy sector have caused at least 60 billion rubles ($714 million) in damage, a joint investigation by RFE/RL, Frontelligence Insight, and a group of volunteers reveals. Dozens of Russian military facilities have been damaged or destroyed over the past six months.
Before his 2023 death in a suspicious plane crash, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had built a sprawling, multinational commercial empire. Some of those ventures, big and small, remain: like bottled water in the Central African Republic.
Across Europe, some 4.3 million refugees could soon have the option of returning to a peaceful Ukraine, but many no longer want to.
After separate talks with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators over three days in Saudi Arabia, the United States announced agreements with Kyiv and Moscow to stop attacks in the Black Sea and implement a halt to strikes on energy facilities, but questions remain. Here are some key takeaways.
US and Russian officials are holding talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at reaching a partial cease-fire in Ukraine to end the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.
Many nuclear experts have welcomed the idea of a US presence at Ukrainian nuclear power plants, viewing it as a firm security guarantee, as well as a positive step in reorienting Ukrainian nuclear power away from Russia and toward the West.
Despite laws banning discriminatory hiring practices, Russian state entities are advertising jobs with the requirement that applicants be of “Slavic appearance,” an RFE/RL investigation has found.
Kyiv’s efforts to bring back thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are expected to be seriously hampered after the United States defunded a research unit that helped to trace the kids.
Mainstream Washington has often fretted over encounters between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin.
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