Exactly 25 years ago on May 7, an obscure ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin — with little public exposure as deputy mayor of St Petersburg — took the oath of the highest office in the post-Communist Russia. A quarter century later, Putin, 72, still remains the most popular politician of Russia, as was evident by last … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with the First Lady, arrived in Prague on May 4, 2025 for a two-day visit. | Photo Credit: X/@ZelenskyyUa Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Prague on Sunday (May 4, 2025) for a two-day visit, Czech politicians said. Czech news agency CTK said a plane carrying Zelenskyy and his wife … Read more
Ukraine has agreed that the past U.S. aid provided to Kyiv will not be part of a minerals deal it aims to sign with Washington, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sunday. “Agreements have been reached that the document does not count assistance provided before its signing,” Shmyhal said in a Telegram post. Shmyhal, … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed the “possibility” of direct talks with Ukraine in a meeting with a US envoy, the Kremlin said, while President Donald Trump claimed the warring parties were “very close to a deal”.But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again rejected suggestions that Ukraine give up Crimea, and the talks between Putin … Read more
Employees are seen at the site of a garment production factory hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on April 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Beijing on Friday (April 18, 2025) denied giving any party in the Ukraine war lethal weapons, after President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed he … Read more
Whatever happens to Ukraine and Gaza, to markets, to Canada and the Atlantic alliance, global trust in the Trump-ruled US is irrecoverable even if fear persists indefinitely. In 1969, Richard Nixon failed to frighten the North Vietnamese into making a quick peace through propagation of his “madman theory” — that he was capable of anything … Read more
In early 2017, U.S. intelligence agencies delivered an unequivocal judgment about why President Vladimir Putin of Russia had ordered a sprawling effort to sabotage the recent American presidential election. Putin wanted to cripple the faith Americans have in their own elections, they found, and to undermine a United States-led “liberal world order” that the Russians … Read more
Key Republicans and Democrats in Congress have been stalwart supporters of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but the blowup between the Ukrainian leader and President Donald Trump is threatening to change that. Zelenskyy had traveled to Washington to sign a deal that would give the U.S. access to its mineral riches as Trump attempts to pressure … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine‘s rare earth minerals because the document was too focused on U.S. interests. The proposal, which was at the center of Zelenskyy’s talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on the … Read more
A car is seen damaged after recent Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday (December 20, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP “A Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Friday (December 20, 2024) killed at least one person and injured nine others,” officials said, while Moscow claimed it was in response to a … Read more