French President Emmanuel Macron said on Feb. 26 that the possibility of sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future, following discussions among European leaders as Russia’s full-scale invasion entered its third ye…
Latvia’s Agriculture Minister Armands Krauze called on the European Union to add Russian foodstuffs to sanctions lists on Feb. 26, ahead of an EU Agriculture Ministers meeting in Brussels.Latvia is the first EU country to decide to ban imports of grain…
The Russian publication Meduza reports that popular Russian TV series such as Slovo Patsana (“The Boy’s Word”), Kholop (“Serf”), and others had been produced as covert propaganda in the lead-up to the re-election of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
So…
Latvian President Egils Rinkēvičs has shared memories about his night in Kyiv on the night of 23-24 February 2022, when he was in Ukraine as Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs along with other Baltic counterparts.
Source: Rinkēvičs in an interview wit…
The Ukrainian government has developed and proposed a five-point plan to Poland to solve the ongoing blockade led by Polish farmers, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Feb. 23 after visiting the border and speaking to Ukrainian truckers. Polis…
23 February 2022 felt interminable.
All sorts of intelligence agencies had spent the previous few weeks trying to give President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the date when the great Russian invasion would “definitely” begin.
These dates rolled by – 16, 19, 22 F…
In response to Polish farmers’ protests, the Ukrainian government has prepared and proposed a “plan of mutual understanding” to unblock the border.
Source: Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a visit to the Ukrainian-Polish border on 23 Febru…
The Latvian parliament voted on Feb. 22 to ban the import of grain products from Belarus and Russia, becoming the first EU country to take such a measure. A Latvian official said in December 2023 that over 380,000 metric tons of Russian grain had been …
Journalists of the Russian news outlet Proekt (Project) have estimated that more people have been convicted in Russia during Putin’s rule than during the rule of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in the USSR.
Source: Proekt; Latvia-based Russian me…
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of recently deceased opposition politician Alexei Navalny, has described Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of the Russian Federation and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, as a “waste of space” and “a nobody” after…