«Если не будет как-то американским интересам соответствовать, они могут нажимать».

and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe

We must brace ourselves for plenty of Britain-bashing by the Kremlin and a growing escalation of its shadow campaign

Midden in het centrum van Amsterdam vind je Splendor: meer dan 10 jaar geleden verzonnen en opgericht door 50 muzikanten die behoefte hadden aan een eigen, onafhankelijke plek om te verzinnen, maken, ...

To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop

The future of the Belarus track will depend less on Minsk’s intentions than on whether the EU can move beyond symbolic unity and adopt a strategic approach toward a neighbor central to Europe’s securi...

Regional disparities in investment, labor markets, and government transparency mean that regional development will be a key feature of Ukraine’s postwar future.

Prominent Belarus human rights defender Ales Byalyatski knew it was coming. His activist colleagues were being harassed and arrested. He just didn't know when. Released over the weekend, the Nobel laureate recounted his ordeal with RFE/RL in an interview.

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – is expected to be announced on Wednesday as part of the UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. The final details of the announcement were agreed by the two sides on Tuesday, with a plan to allow UK students to participate in the EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources said. Continue reading...

Bij Raam op Rusland vindt u altijd het laatste nieuws over Rusland, Oekraïne en de voormalige Sovjet-Unie. Ga naar de site voor het nieuws van vandaag.

Wit-Rusland: Met de vrijlating van 123 Wit-Russische politieke gevangenen in ruil voor sanctieverlichting hoopt dictator Loekasjenko het internationale isolement te doorbreken. Maar hij stuurt ze…

A day after being released in a US-brokered deal with Minsk, several Belarusian political prisoners who spent more than four years behind bars said they had no regrets for standing up to authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko.

«О том, что мы находимся в Украине, я узнавал только по вынужденным стоянкам и с точки зрения ориентации по солнцу», — рассказал Виктор Бабарико.

Zelensky said Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) chief Kyrylo Budanov informed him Belarus preferred this option over releasing the prisoners via "this or that EU country."

Het is de tweede keer in een paar maanden tijd dat Belarus leden van de oppositie vrijlaat.

Belarusian pro-democracy activist Andrei Sannikov recently joined Beet editor Eilish Hart for a conversation recorded on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Forum. The interview focuse...

Radio Liberty political analyst Valer Karbalevich discusses what will happen after the departure of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and answers questions about whether we will face transit, “delukashenization”...

RAAM – op Rusland, Oekraïne en Belarus. Platform voor kennis, analyse en debat.

«Мы можем подойти к ситуации, в которой это беларусским демсилам надо стараться заявить о себе, а не Лукашенко».

London and Moscow’s rivalry stretches back to the imperial era, but the Ukraine war has brought relations to a new low

International Strategic Action Network for Security

Julian G. Waller discusses the problem of generational sclerosis within Russia’s elite and new efforts at belated reform