The Kremlin has declined to confirm a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump saying Russia is ready to “accept” European troops in Ukraine as part of a peace deal, although it left room for a potential agreement. Trump made his comments after meeting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the White House, responding to a question…
Saudi Arabia is hosting one of the most important diplomatic meetings between Russia and the United States in years. On February 18, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh. The meeting will aim to restore the fraught ties between the two countries. It will focus on…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have fired the first shots of a new trade war with an exchange of hard-hitting tariffs that could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S.-China rivalry. The tit-for-tat levies are a revival of the two years of trade tensions during Trump’s first term in the White House,…
If you bring a mobile phone or tablet into Tajikistan, the law requires you to register the device with the government. And the mandatory registration fee you pay will ultimately line the pockets of a private company linked to associates of the president’s son, an investigation by RFE/RL’s Tajik Service has found. Since October 2023,…
When he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently believed Russian forces would topple the government within weeks and restore Moscow’s dominance over the country after 30 years of independence. Putin was mistaken, and the war he started rages on nearly three years later. It’s hard to imagine Putin…
U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden days before his scheduled sentencing on gun-possession and tax-related charges, despite having repeatedly said he would not do so. The sweeping pardon announced on December 1 exonerates Hunter Biden, 54, from any crime he may have committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. That…
State-aligned Russian media celebrated Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election — and the political split in U.S. society — before official results were declared. But a Kremlin spokesman said he knew of no plans by Russian President Vladmir Putin to congratulate Trump. Source link