Witalij Portnykow

Sep 2, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Igor Eidman |Witalij Portnykow

Putin wants to show that he can ignore not only international law but also international justice, journalist Vitaly Portnykov writes in Radio Svoboda: “What will happen if Putin visits a country that has signed the Rome Statute and returns home safely? That would set a dangerous precedent, especially for the countries of the Global South: Putin travelled to Mongolia, nobody arrested him there and everything went well. Perhaps we should invite him too?

Jul 31, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Ovidiu Nahoi |Tamás Rónay |Witalij Portnykow

31 July 2024For years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used the stage of the Summer University in the Romanian, but predominantly Hungarian-speaking Băile Tușnad to give highly provocative speeches. This year his vitriol was again directed at Brussels, Washington and Warsaw. But this time Poland's Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski, did not beat about the bush in his response: Orbán should ask himself why he is still in the EU.

May 24, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Witalij Portnykow

Aamulehti warns against hasty reactions: “It's more important to look behind the media circus and try to determine Russia's true intentions. This is not the first time that Russia has tried to redraw the borders on the map. Of course, a unilateral declaration of border changes must always be taken seriously, but in the worst case a hasty reaction could play right into Russia's hands. Finland, Lithuania and Nato must now stand together, cautiously but resolutely, without fuelling rumours.