Moldova’s ‘Frozen Conflict’ Has Lessons For Ukraine
Image by Clay Gilliland The country Nikolai Klimkin serves does not officially exist and has remained trapped in a limbo of impoverished stagnation for decades....
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Baltic Tension Heats Up With Moscow
Image by Rei-artur The Baltic nation of Estonia, one of the NATO members in the region concerned about perceived Russian aggression, expelled two Russian diplomats...
Russia Building Arctic Research Center To Further Military Buildup
Russia is building a military research and testing center in the Arctic region, furthering its already strong hold to land claims in the region, at...
Montenegro To Join NATO In June
Kozeta Cika contributed to this article Image by Helmandsare Montenegro is expected to be the next NATO member, bringing the total number of member countries...
“Biggest-Ever” Corruption Crackdown In Ukraine
Ukrainian law enforcement agents detained 23 former high-ranking tax-administration official suspected of helping the government of ex-President Viktor Yanukovich to defraud 96 billion Hryvnas...
Environmentalists Climb Trees To Protest Logging In Poland
Bialowieza Forest, an ancient, primeval woods on the border between Poland and Belarus, is the subject of environmental protests as activists try to stop logging...
Russian Oligarch To Put Buzzfeed Editors, Reporters, Under Oath
Lawyers for a Russian tech mogul suing online news site BuzzFeed for defamation will seek within the next two weeks to take sworn testimony from...
Russia Refusing Rail Shipments To Latvia
Railway industry officials say that Russian Railways (RZhD), which has a monopoly in Russia, is refusing to accept rail shipments into the Baltic nation of...
Ukraine Parliament Votes To Limit Amount Of Russian Spoken On Ukrainian TV
The Ukrainian parliament approved a measure to force Ukrainian Television broadcasters to speak Ukrainian on at least 75% of their broadcasts, in a bid to...