Andrew Higgins

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Higgins

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary pioneered many of the themes dear to conservatives in the United States, railing for years against "migration insanity," "the woke virus" and "gender madness."Now Mr. Orban is engaged in an effort that veers away from the orthodox conservative view that the state should stay out of the economy: He's trying to set the price of eggs and other goods.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Higgins

A student-led protest movement in Serbia rallied more than 100,000 people for a huge peaceful street demonstration on Saturday in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, defying warnings from the country's embattled strongman leader that months of unrest were careening out of control into violence.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Higgins

Unable to calm student-led protests that just kept growing, Serbia's strongman leader, Aleksandar Vucic, reached for some tried-and-tested scapegoats, unleashing his media attack dogs on foreign-financed groups that have nettled him for years. But what started as a familiar ritual of intimidation against groups that document issues like corruption, human rights abuses and electoral fraud - and which Mr. Vucic blames for the protests - has recently taken an unusual and menacing turn.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Higgins

As the United States and Europe condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Sasa Bozic responded by opening the Putin Café in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, decorating it with a mannequin of the Russian president - a foot taller than Vladimir V. Putin is in real life.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Higgins

He and former Polish political prisoners voiced "horror and disgust" at President Trump's scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with bullying Communist-era officials. Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement in the 1980s, last year. On Monday, he joined former Polish political detainees in sending a letter to President Trump. Credit...