Experts interviewed by RFE/RL doubt Beijing will honor European appeals to influence Moscow amid a new push to end the war in Ukraine, even though the EU is one of China’s largest trading partners.
Iran’s first Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) counterterrorism drill is less about joint military strength and more about sending a signal: Tehran wants the world to see it as strategically relevant, even if the exercise itself demonstrates little real multilateral capability.
If there's one way European Union officials feel they can get a seat at the table when it comes the settlement of the war in Ukraine, it is via the 176 billion euros of Russian frozen assets currently held inside the bloc and how that can be leveraged both politically and economically.
The White House’s point man for trying to hammer out an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine is headed back to Moscow for a sixth visit. It’s another sign that negotiations are intensifying.
The emergence of a US draft plan to end Russia’s war on Ukraine has abruptly altered the diplomatic landscape surrounding the invasion, added to pressure on Kyiv to make major concessions, and raised more questions than it answers. Here’s what to know and what to watch.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in the middle of a three-country tour of Central Asia focused on shoring up Chinese influence after a month where the region has been in Washington’s diplomatic spotlight due to its strategic mineral wealth.
The EU is looking at how it can meet Ukraine's financing needs, including a loan using frozen Russian assets, for next year and the year after.
Europe is ramping up defense spending. But one issue has largely been neglected -- how to move military equipment from one country to another as quickly as possible in the case of conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy recently hinted that the European Union is working on another sanctions package on Russia, less than a month after agreeing on a new raft of measures hitting the Kremlin.
With elections suspended under martial law and Ukrainians displaying strong unity in the face of the Russian onslaught, politics has been largely on hold over nearly four years of full-scale war. But a burgeoning corruption scandal poses the biggest challenge yet to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
One week after Central Asian leaders signed billions in strategic new deals in Washington, the Kazakh president is visiting the Kremlin to reaffirm the relationship with Russia.
On November 12 the European Commission will present its “democracy shield” – a collection of proposals to be rolled-out in the coming years to protect the bloc and EU candidate countries from foreign interference and political manipulation.
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