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Tallinn, Estonia - Kaza Kalas, now 44, grew up in the Soviet Union, which annexed his country, Estonia, after World War II.She remembers being captured by the Soviet Union and visiting East Berlin when she was 11 years old, and her father…

Over the years, President Vladimir V. Putin has viewed NATO's expansion as an existential threat that would allow Russia to be surrounded by Western missiles at its doorstep. Now that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine seems to be bringing the…

Krakow, Poland - Russian President Vladimir V. Putin suffered a new blow in the Ukraine invasion on Friday, with Sweden becoming the second neutral country to join NATO in two days, and the West seeking ways to re-route Ukrainian grain…

Single arrests at the Tuscan port are rarely international news. But the decision of the Italian police to arrest Sheherezade last Friday in Marina de Carara was different.For one thing, Sheherezade is not a person, but a 459-foot luxury…

The U.S. director of national intelligence said Tuesday that Russia's goals in the war were detailed, including the construction of a land bridge on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, but that the Kremlin would struggle to achieve those gains…

"On the day of the victory over Nazism, we are fighting for a new victory," said Mr Jelensky, who was seen walking alone on the streets of Kiev, with government buildings of the past guarded by barricades and barbed wire.Together, the…

For the second time in less than a decade, Elvira Nabeulina is running the Russian economy through treacherous waters.In 2014, as head of the ruble’s central bank, facing a ruble and rising inflation for a year, Ms. Nabeulina forced the…

Olga Romanova's grandmother served as a frontline nurse during World War II. She was small and thin, Ms Romanova said, but somehow managed to "protect the big, grown-up, injured people". She met her husband at the age of four on the…

Following weeks of investigations, Italian authorities announced Friday evening that they had seized nearly $ 700 million worth of supercars and that its owner had "significant economic and trade ties" with "key elements of the Russian…

Belarusian dictator and President Vladimir V. Alexander G. Lukashenko, a close aide to Putin, said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia's attack was "drawn out" and called for an end to the "war". The Kremlin has vehemently…