The struggle to defeat Russian censorship and propaganda
FOR the past three years Vladimir Putin has been fighting on two fronts. Just as his army has ruthlessly bombed Ukraine, his ...
Russia Says It Has Retaken Key Kursk Town From Ukraine
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that the military had regained full control of the town of Sudzha, the main populatio...
U.S. Negotiators Are En Route to Moscow, Kremlin Says
American and Russian officials are expected to meet in Moscow on Thursday as President Vladimir V. Putin weighs a 30-day ceas...
In a Europe Adrift, Macron Seizes the Moment
In the weeks after President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election last summer that resulted in a deeply divided French P...
Europe Expected a Transactional Trump. It Got Something Else.
President Trump is no fan of the European Union. He has repeatedly claimed that the bloc was created to “screw” America, has ...
Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics
For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet republic that borders Russia, have been accusing their...
Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine
Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigues, visited a command post near the front in Kursk late Wednesday to ...
Is Zelensky a disliked dictator or a popular hero?
Donald Trump delivered such a dressing-down to Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the end of last month that some thoug...
Europe Welcomes a Ukraine Cease-Fire Offer and a Revival of U.S. Aid
Europeans reacted with relief to the announcement on Tuesday that Ukraine had agreed with the United States on a 30-day cease...
Swedish Battery Maker Northvolt Collapses, a Blow to Europe
Northvolt, Europe’s biggest hope for producing batteries in the region to power the transition to electric vehicles, will be ...