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On Aug. 23, 1989—the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which established spheres of Soviet and German influence across Eastern Europe—approximately 2 million people across the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania formed a human chain stretching more than 400 miles in a sign of resistance to the Soviet Union’s occupation […]
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – On the last day of January, a woman took her son to see paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova at Polyclinic No. 140 in northwest Moscow. The boy, aged seven, had a problem with one of his eyes. The conversation that the boy’s mother alleged took place during an 18-minute encounter at […]
Two men, including a former Soviet fighter pilot, who flew heroin worth €8.4m into Dublin on a light aircraft last year, have been sentenced to 10 and eight years in prison. Aradi Ignac, aged 50, of Kecskemet, Hungary, and Zoltan Nemeth, aged 63, of Sukosd in Hungary, pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin into Weston Airport […]
The president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, won re-election on Sunday against a rival candidate she had denounced as “Moscow’s man.” Source link
On the Ukrainian steppe, where it is nearly impossible to hide from drone surveillance, windbreaks are fought over by Russian and Ukrainian troops. Source link