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During and immediately after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, recently held in Tianjin, Vladimir Putin felt emboldened enough by the circumstances to send some harsh messages to his American counterpart. Putin's messages have varied – from displaying a warm relationship with three leaders who do not hold back confronting Donald Trump (Xi, Kim, Modi), to statements suggesting (once again) that...

Presupusul spion KGB în România a ajuns, marţi dimineaţă, la DIICOT, pentru a fi audiat de către procurori, fiind acuzat că ar fi divulgat informaţii secrete de stat către ofiţeri din cadrul Comitetului Securităţii de Stat - KGB al Republicii Belarus ”în condiţii de natură să pună în pericol securitatea naţională a României”. Serviciul de Informaţii şi Securitate al...

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, currently on a tour of Eastern Europe 'frontline states' was hit by GPS interference on Sunday, with Russia suspected of being behind the attack. “We can confirm there was GPS jamming but the plane landed safe,” Arianna Podestà, deputy spokesperson of the Commission, said in a statement reported by POLITICO. Podestà...

More than 5,400 Ukrainian citizens fled their war-stricken country into Romania in the first seven months of the year, according to Romania's border police. The figure is lower then 2023 when 7,600 Ukrainians crossed into Romania without documentation.  In three cases, Ukrainian citizens who had obtained temporary protection in Romania then became guides for other compatriots, and were then remanded in...

The Trump-Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office was a success in that it was not a failure and allowed for a transition to the later phases of the talks. The discussions, which followed, where other European leaders "escorted" their counterpart from Kyiv to Washington, were a public success if they are judged in terms of their focus on the following:...

Monday's White House meeting with Zelensky and Western leaders will test not only Ukraine’s survival but America’s credibility as leader of the free world (which is on life support)   In February, the world witnessed something that had never before occurred in the annals of US diplomacy: a foreign leader was effectively defenestrated from the White House. Volodymyr Zelensky, the wartime...

European and NATO leaders announced Sunday that they would join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington as they seek to navigate America's new approach to ending the war. Ukraine and its European allies pulled together on Sunday to respond to President Donald Trump's apparent shift toward Vladimir Putin's hardline position after their summit in Alaska. French President Emmanuel Macron and British...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken with his Romanian counterpart Nicușor Dan ahead of this weeks's meeting of the US and Russia's presidents and a visit by the Romanian president to Ukraine. The two leaders spoke on Tuesday, ahead of the US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimr Putin's summit in Alaska on Aug. 15 to which the Ukrainian...

He's trying to sell out Ukraine on Aug. 15, but even that might not work without massive pressure on Putin. Trump evidently believes that Vladimir Putin has finally been persuaded to settle for less than the total conquest of Ukraine — specifically, for control over the Donbas region in the east. That’s why Friday’s meeting with Putin in Alaska —...

Romania on Thursday is holding a state funeral and has declared a national day of mourning its late President Ion Iliescu, a polarizing figure whose death has reignited old traumas about Romania’s brutal 1989 revolution and the subsequent tumultuous transition to democracy. Iliescu, who served three terms as president, died on Tuesday, two months after being admitted to hospital for...