Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, was welcomed in a handful of African countries this week, from those with big economies—South Africa and Angola—to the tiny kingdom of Eswatini, the last absolute monarchy in Africa, and Eritrea, one of only five countries to
Nuclear negotiations were stalled to begin with, but the protests that have been happening in waves across Iran since September and the brutal crackdown that has ensued have made doing business with the Islamic Republic that much more complicated. More than 500
It took a famous actor who once played a Russian soldier in a popular film to set Russia’s State Duma off. When Artur Smolyaninov told “Novaya Gazeta Europe” he would fight on the Ukrainian side if he had to join the war, plans
KYIV, Ukraine — As the war grinds into its 11th month, the Ukrainian government argues it’s lost too much to meet somewhere in the middle. “It must end with the defeat of the Russian Federation,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
On the eve of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral, I am reflecting on my one personal encounter with him. Realizing, too, that if he hadn’t shocked the world in 2013 by resigning, I probably would never have had the opportunity to perform