A senior US State Department official has flatly rejected suggestions that Washington and Moscow are informally continuing to observe the limits of the now-expired, nuclear-weapon-limiting New START treaty, saying there is no “gentlemen’s agreement” in place.
A European Commission spokeswoman on February 17 confirmed that Brussels was in touch with Ukraine regarding the Druzhba pipeline that has been damaged since late January, preventing Russian oil from flowing to Hungary and Slovakia.
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were set to meet for the latest round of US-brokered peace talks following another round of Russian overnight strikes on targets across Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles.
Dozens gathered at a Moscow cemetery to pay tribute to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on the second anniversary of his death. His mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, laid flowers at his grave, joined by diplomats from several European countries.
Dozens gathered at a Moscow cemetery on the second anniversary of Aleksei Navalny's death, laying flowers at his grave, as European countries said Russia poisoned Navalny with exotic frog toxin.
On his second day at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio set out to calm nerves and sharpen focus: Ukraine and security, he signaled, very much remain the center of gravity of Washington’s transatlantic policy.
The governments of five European countries on February 14 released a statement saying that they are confident that the Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin not found naturally in Russia -- a poisoning that led to his death in a Russian prison two years ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an impassioned plea for more Western weapons and for "real security guarantees," calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "slave to war" who will threaten Europe if he is not stopped in Ukraine.
After a day defined by pointed rhetoric and “wrecking-ball” warnings from European leaders, the focus of the Munich Security Conference has shifted entirely to the man set to deliver Washington’s answer: Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Germany's leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, called on Europe and the United States to repair strained transatlantic ties as he opened the three-day Munich Security Conference on February 13. Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine is among the key issues to be discussed.
Even as Ukraine's foreign minister spoke out on February 13 about ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine, new deaths were being reported from drone strikes on Odesa and Kramatorsk. Andriy Sybiha spoke at the Munich Security Conference, where Ukraine is putting on display pieces of Shahed drones.
Michael Caster, the head of Article 19's Global China Program, speaks with RFE/RL about the organization's new report looking at how Chinese technology underpins Iran’s internet control and what it means as Tehran looks to consolidate control after weeks of deadly protests.
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