Opinion: Putin′s hypocrisy on human rights | Opinion | DW
Moscow is celebrating the hundredth birthday of famed author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Among the guests: President Vladimir Putin, who once worked for the Soviet secret police….
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Angela Merkel urges Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainian sailors | News | DW
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Moscow to release 24 Ukrainian sailors during a call with her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, government spokesman Steffen Seibert…
My Europe: Rekindle the trans-Atlantic love story! | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Power politics on the two flanks of the Atlantic seems to swing between farce and drama: Who needs to factor China and Russia in when…
Ukraine to ditch Russian friendship treaty amid tensions | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Since February 27, 2014, when the Russian annexation of Crimea first became visible with the occupation of the regional parliament in Simferopol by pro-Russian armed…
Nicolas Maduro and Vladimir Putin: United by oil, isolation | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
The news seemed to come out of nowhere. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced his “important working visit”with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Twitter. It seems…
Russia-Ukraine skirmishes: Storm warning on the Black Sea | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
The Black Sea is not exactly know for its turbulent waters, nor for being a geopolitical flash point. This, however, changed quite dramatically in 2014…
Saudi prince in Argentina as G20 summit tensions brew
BUENOS AIRES: World leaders began arriving in Argentina on Wednesday (Nov 28) ahead of a G20 summit dogged by increasingly strident warnings about the impact…
Gerhard Schröder labeled ′enemy of the state’ in Ukraine | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
It’s just a few lines, plus a photo and date of birth. But they accuse Gerhard Schröder, the former chancellor of Germany and chairman of…
Alexei Navalny′s European court date puts pressure on Kremlin | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
The European Human Rights Court is set to decide on Thursday whether Russian anti-corruption activist and opposition politician Alexei Navalny‘s frequent detentions at the hands of…
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny prohibited from leaving country | News | DW
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said that he had been prohibited from boarding a flight from Moscow’ Domodedovo airport to Frankfurt that morning….
Is the EU kowtowing to the Kremlin on Magnitsky sanctions? | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Bill Browder lists a handful of events he believes should amount to more than enough reasons for the European Union to crack down on Kremlin…
Russia tactics send NATO back to basics | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Russian President Vladimir Putin brags that he’s got hypersonic missiles invincible to NATO defenses; he’s building up his depot of tactical nuclear weapons on the…
INF: Vladimir Putin threatens to mirror US deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe | News | DW
Russia would mirror any US deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe if Washington withdraws from the Cold War-era INF treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said…
Crimea college shooting rampage shocks Russia | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Kerch Polytechnic College has been cordoned off. Since yesterday evening, locals have been bringing flowers, candles and toys to the scene. Twenty people were killed…
Russian Orthodox Church ′cuts ties′ with Constantinople | News | DW
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the bishop in charge of the Russian Orthodox Church’s diplomacy, told journalists in Minsk on Monday that “a decision has been made to break…
′Russia is the only conceivable threat to Poland′ | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Radoslaw Sikorski, the former Polish foreign and defense minister, explains in an interview with DW’s Zhanna Nemtsova why the current right-conservative Polish government is against…
Skripal poisoning private investigator: We share open-source info ″with everyone″ | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
On Tuesday British citizen journalist Eliot Higgins, of the investigative network Bellingcat, addressed members of the press in London following its announcement that it had…
Russia’s Balkan power games on show ahead of elections | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
A few days ago, Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton won the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi for the fifth time in a row, increasing his chances…