Georgia is “returning to the past” through the new foreign agents law, the president of the former Soviet state has said, as EU ministers urge the government to “take a way out”. Speaking at a press conference with the foreign…
Zelenskyy says UN Security Council ‘‘ineffective’’ due to Russian veto
In Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first in-person appearance at a UN Security Council meeting on Moscow’s invasion of his country, he told a special meeting that the Russian veto has rendered the world body “ineffective”. Zelenskyy said that the United…
Ukraine switches World War II victory date to May 8
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday said Ukraine would stop celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9, instead marking the event a day earlier. The announcement, on the day — May 8 — that most of Europe celebrates…
Zelensky thanks German Bundestag for acknowledging Holodomor genocide
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed the German Bundestag’s decision to classify the famine in Ukraine, caused deliberately 90 years ago, as genocide. “This is a decision for justice, for truth,’’ Zelensky said in his daily video address on Thursday.…
Putin says Gorbachev ‘had huge impact on course of global history
Vladimir Putin has sent official condolences to the family of Mikhail Gorbachev in the first official Kremlin statement on the passing of the last leader of the Soviet Union. “Mikhail Gorbachev was a politician and statesman who had a huge…
Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91. Mr Gorbachev, who took over in 1985, is best known for opening up the USSR and for his rapprochement with the West, but he was unable to prevent his country collapsing…
Belarus leader who helped dissolve USSR dies at 87
The first head of state of an independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine signed a decree dissolving the Soviet Union, has died aged 87, his wife told AFP. Shushkevich, who later became a critic…
Kazakh leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades (BBC)
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has led the country since independence from the Soviet Union, has announced his resignation. In a pre-recorded television address, he said the decision had “not been simple”. Mr. Nazarbayev, 78, has been largely unchallenged since…