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After being shot, Slovakia’s leader targets his perceived enemies

Sep 12, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Higgins

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — When Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to work this summer after recovering from gunshot wounds from a May assassination attempt, he released a video message titled “I forgive and I warn.”Since then, there has been scant sign of forgiveness. But Fico has more than delivered on his warning to those he considers political enemies.
How two Russian spies went deep undercover with their children

Aug 5, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Andrew Higgins |Andrew Higgins

The Russian Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Russia has a long history of investing heavily in so-called illegals, spies who burrow deep into target countries over many years. Photo / Manca Juvan, The New York TimesA couple planted as sleeper spies in Slovenia posed as an Argentine art dealer and an entrepreneur. They were caught in December 2022 and sent to Moscow in a sweeping prisoner exchange last week.
8/5/24 National Security News and Commentary

Aug 3, 2024 | myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Mark Milley |Eric Schmidt |Andrew Higgins |Carol Rosenberg

Quotes of the Day:“At a dinner in Munich in February 2023, I found myself seated across the table from a European diplomat who had just returned from Africa. He had met with some students there and had been shocked to discover how little they knew or cared about the war in Ukraine. They had repeated Russian claims that the Ukrainians are “Nazis,” blamed NATO for the invasion, and generally used the same kind of language that can be heard every night on Russian evening news.
In Serbia, Xi underlines close ties with ally that shares wariness of US - The Boston Globe

May 8, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Higgins

WARSAW — China and Serbia on Wednesday proclaimed an “ironclad friendship” and a “shared future” during a visit to Belgrade by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, underlining the close political and economic ties between two countries that share a wariness of the United States. Xi arrived in Serbia late Tuesday — the 25th anniversary of a mistaken 1999 airstrike involving the US Air Force during the Kosovo War that destroyed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, the Serbian capital.
A CIA black site remains a touchy subject for this country

Apr 9, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Andrew Higgins

The former CIA site, code-named Site Violet, in Antaviliai, Lithuania. Photo / Andrej Vasilenko, The New York TimesDespite rulings in European courts saying the Baltic country was home to a secret prison, the issue has been shrouded in official secrecy in a nation closely allied with the United States. First came containers loaded with equipment for a secluded property under renovation on the edge of the forest.
Orban endangers Hungary’s status in NATO, US diplomat says

Mar 14, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Higgins

Prime Minister Viktor Orban is jeopardizing Hungary’s position as a trusted NATO ally, the US ambassador to Budapest warned on Thursday, with “its close and expanding relationship with Russia,” and with “dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging” in state-controlled media.
A breakaway region of Moldova asks Russia for protection

Feb 28, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Higgins |Andrew Higgins

A thin sliver of land sandwiched between Ukraine and Moldova asked Russia on Wednesday to provide it with protection, repeating in miniature the highly flammable scenario played out by regions of eastern Ukraine now occupied by Moscow. The call for Russian protection by Transnistria, a self-declared but internationally unrecognized microstate on the eastern bank of the Dniester River, escalated tensions that date to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bosnia’s dysfunction snarls efforts to curb Russia’s reach in the Balkans

Feb 22, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Higgins

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Already struggling to contain intractable crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, the United States is also grappling with an impasse in the Balkans over a gas pipeline into Bosnia, an issue that is freighted with big geopolitical stakes.
Slovakia says it’s halting arms deliveries to Ukraine

Oct 26, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Higgins

WARSAW — Slovakia, a small Eastern European nation that has been in the vanguard of sending arms to Ukraine, says it is halting all military aid to its embattled neighbor, a policy shift that is unlikely to change the balance of forces on the battlefield but that delivers a symbolic blow to Ukraine at a time of growing fatigue in parts of Europe after 20 months of war.
Amid Attacks, Ukraine’s Grain Exports Get a Lifeline From Romania

Aug 14, 2023 | banoyi.com | Andrew Higgins

“We invested a lot of money in Galati,” the minister said in an interview in Bucharest. “But they don’t use it. I don’t know why they don’t use it.”Speaking on Friday after meeting European and American officials, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said Romanian ports could see “increased volumes” of grain from his country in the future but added that this would depend on further work to improve railway lines.