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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Todd Prince |Margot Buff
Clifford May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative national security-focused think tank. In a wide-ranging interview with RFE/RL, May argued that US President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy has succeeded in forcing European NATO members to step up their defense budgets and contribute more meaningfully to their collective security. "It can't be an entitlement that America protects you," May told RFE/RL correspondent Todd Prince.
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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Margot Buff |Todd Prince
Fiona Hill is an author, Russia analyst, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who previously served in intelligence and security roles under three US administrations. In a wide-ranging interview, she spoke to RFE/RL correspondent Todd Prince about what President Donald Trump's second term could mean for NATO, the emergence of a Trump foreign policy doctrine, and how European governments could help end the war in Ukraine.
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1 month ago | 
slobodnaevropa.org | Margot Buff |Ray Furlong
U komičarskom klubu u Viljnusu, u Litvaniji, "Zločesta Saša" izaziva salve smijeha šalom u kojoj poredi američku politiku i represiju u njenoj domovini, Bjelorusiji. "Provjeravaju telefone na [američkoj] granici, a ljude hapse zbog protesta... A ja sam kao, 'Ha ha ha, to vam je prvi put?'""Zločesta Saša", pravo ime Saša Hušča, svoj humor čvrsto zasniva na nedaćama koje su oblikovale njen život. Kao dijete, zadobila je teške opekotine ruku i lica u požaru u kući.
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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Margot Buff |Ray Furlong
At a comedy club in Vilnius, Lithuania, Evil Sasha gets belly laughs with a joke comparing US politics and the repression in her home country, Belarus. “They're checking phones at the [US] border, and people are getting arrested for protesting… And I'm like, ‘Ha ha ha, first time?’”Evil Sasha -- real name Sasha Hushcha -- bases her humor firmly in the adversity that has shaped her life. As a child, she suffered extensive burns to her hands and face in a house fire.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik announced on March 31 that he had arrived in Moscow after prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina requested an international arrest warrant over accusations that he flouted the Balkan country’s constitution. Dodik posted a video of himself on social media in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier along the wall of the Kremlin.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
Rescue teams have recovered a submerged military vehicle in Lithuania that was carrying four US soldiers who remain missing. The M88 Hercules armored vehicle was retrieved early March 31, six days after a rescue operation was launched at the Pabrade military training ground near Lithuania's border with BelarusLithuanian Defense Minister Davile Sakaliene said that the fate of the four soldiers has yet to be determined.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 29 pleaded for a "strong response" from Ukraine’s Western partners as deadly Russian attacks mounted, including air strikes on a Kharkiv military hospital and on the cities of Dnipro and Kryviy Rih. “Our partners should clearly understand: These strikes are not just attacks on Ukrainian civilians, but also on all international efforts -- on the very diplomacy we are trying to use to end this war," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
Police in the Netherlands said on March 29 that a man suspected of a stabbing rampage that wounded five people in Amsterdam is a Ukrainian national from the eastern Donetsk region. The 30-year-old man is suspected of using multiple knives to randomly stab five people in a busy shopping area in central Amsterdam on March 27 and is set to appear in court on April 1, police said in a statement. The motive for the attack remains unclear, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
At least seven soldiers and six suspected militants were killed during a military operation in northwestern Pakistan, a Pakistani intelligence official told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaalon March 29. The deadly encounter erupted a day earlier during an operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where Pakistani forces regularly conduct counterterrorism sweeps, an official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
A Russian drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro late on March 28 killed four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and multiple private homes, the regional governor said. "According to the information we have at the moment, there are 4 deaths in Dnipro," said Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, on Telegram. Russian forces used more than 20 drones in the strike on Dnipro, which also injured 19.
