Here are the key developments on the 1,088th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Sunday, February 16: Fighting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wanted United States President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, to visit his country’s eastern front line to report back to Trump on…
The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus. It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in…
Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, has released an American prisoner and two others from jail, an exiled opposition group said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that the autocratic Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, was looking for ways to improve frozen relations with the West. The releases, announced by an opposition group led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya…
Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for more than 30 years, won a presidential election on Sunday with 86.82 percent of vote according to Belarusian state media, marking his seventh term as leader of the Eastern European country. More than half a million people have fled Belarus since Lukashenko’s last rigged election victory in 2020, which saw massive…
Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents dismissed as a sham, whose only purpose was to cement his autocratic grip on the former Soviet republic, Russia’s closest ally. “Don’t use the word election to describe…
Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to give strongman President Alexander Lukashenko yet another term on top of his three decades in power. Rubio’s post on the X social network identified the U.S. citizen as…
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Pulling the country away from Russia’s sphere of influence, then, could be painful — but it’s been done before, according to Alachnovič, the economist. “Apart from Belarus, all other Central and Eastern European countries have already reoriented their econom[ies] from Russia to the West,” he said. “Poland reoriented. Bulgaria and the Baltic states reoriented. Moldova…
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a plenary session of the Valdai Club on Nov. 7, 2024 in Moscow, Russia. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Global stocks fell and investors fled to safe-haven assets on Tuesday, as global markets reacted to escalating tensions between the world’s two largest nuclear powers: Russia and…
Home News ‘From Kremlin to White House: Putin’s Calculated Influence in Trump’s Political Rise’ Russia’s secret operation involved hacking emails and documents and spreading false information on social media. New Delhi: George Papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy adviser for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, shared with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that Russia had harmful information about…