Margret Johnston is a writer and editor in the Washington bureau of RFE/RL's Central Newsroom.
Moldovan Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi said it is encouraging to Moldova that the declaration issued at the NATO summit in Washington calls on Russia to withdraw all its forces from Moldova and also welcomes Moldova’s reform efforts.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the alliance was “putting in place the foundations for Ukraine to prevail” in its effort to defend itself against Russia.
The exiled leader of Belarus’s democratic movement, Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, has urged Western leaders to be “united” and “decisive” in their resistance to “the imperialistic ambitions of Russia.”
NATO officials have agreed at a summit in Washington to take further steps to bring Ukraine closer to the alliance and to counter the growing security threat posed by Russia by taking over the coordination of training and weapons deliveries from the United States.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says NATO leaders must remember what's at stake as they celebrate the military alliance's 75th anniversary at a summit this week.
Two members of Congress who visited Ukraine in April said the United States should provide Ukraine with the military equipment it needs to win the war against Russia, including the means to strike inside Russia.
A new film about Anna Politkovskaya aims to take audiences back to the early 2000s, when the late investigative journalist was doggedly pursuing stories about corruption in Russia and abuses in Chechnya. “Journalists should be able to report without fear of death or reprisal,” a producer says.
The U.S.-based team working to win the release of American journalist Evan Gershkovich from a Russian jail is eyeing the approach of the anniversary of his detention with a mix of hope and frustration as the ordeal heads into a second year.
The new EU ambassador to the United States has arrived in Washington at a time when tough issues related to the war in Ukraine are at the top of the international agenda as the conflict grinds toward its two-year anniversary on February 24.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa, who was in the U.S. capital this week with a message for Americans about the importance of continuing their support for Ukraine, says the world currently has a unique opportunity to force political change in Russia and should not let it pass.
