Nathan Hodge

1 week ago | romania.europalibera.org | Nathan Hodge

Legenda rusă a hocheiului Alex Ovechkin a intrat în istorie în momentul în care l-a depășit pe Wayne Gretzky în topul celor mai buni marcatori din Liga Națională de Hockey (NHL) din Statele Unite. În același moment, recordul a început să fie util și mașinăriei de propagandă a Kremlinului.

1 week ago | rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Nathan Hodge |Merhat Sharipzhan

In a rare moment of international visibility, Belarusian strongman Aleksandr Lukashenko welcomed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for an official visit to Minsk on April 10, hailing it as a significant milestone in bilateral relations. The visit, which continued on April 11, resulted in multiple agreements spanning military cooperation, food security, and trade. Most notably, Lukashenko offered to accept up to 150,000 Pakistani workers to help address Belarus's deepening labor shortage.

1 week ago | rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Nathan Hodge |Merhat Sharipzhan

A senior aide to US President Donald Trump has landed in Russia amid a flurry of diplomatic activity around the war in Ukraine that includes US-Ukrainian talks in Washington and a meeting chaired by Britain and Germany in Brussels. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state media that US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had arrived on April 11. He stopped in Moscow on his way to high-level talks with Tehran over Iran's nuclear program scheduled for April 12 in Oman.

2 weeks ago | rferl.org | Merhat Sharipzhan |Ray Furlong |Nathan Hodge |Andras Nagy

US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink will step down, the State Department said, leaving the post vacant a time when crucial peace negotiations are under way between Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow. Appointed by former President Joe Biden, Brink has served as ambassador in Kyiv since May 2022, navigating US-Ukraine relations during a critical period marked by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "Ambassador Brink is stepping down.

2 weeks ago | rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Nathan Hodge |Andras Nagy

Germany's Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz has announced that talks on forming a new coalition government have been completed, stating it would aim to take office in early May. Merz noted the coalition talks took place amid "growing international political tensions," citing Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and US tariffs. "The Russian aggressor, Putin, shows no willingness to end the war and to let the guns go silent.