The U.N. estimates that up to 80% of local health workers have been evacuated from the area, and those who remain endure dire shortages of supplies that exacerbate the humanitarian crisis throughout the region.
That nearly ten nations in the Western Hemisphere do not have U.S. ambassadors appointed to them sends the wrong message regarding Washington’s interests and priorities towards its continental neighbors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has found himself in an uncomfortable defensive position in the face of global outrage over his government’s support for separatists in Ukraine.
The continent-wide song competition has provided a platform for anti-Russian sentiment this year with Russian-European tensions bubbling into the proceedings.
The move is a clear attempt at courting the politically significant Crimean Tatar population, which has been vocal in its opposition to Moscow’s annexation of the territory from Ukraine.
March 1 has long been a source of tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where ethnic tensions have persisted since the U.S.-brokered Dayton accord split the country into two ruling entities in 1995.
In a country often referred to as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” even the act of producing art is a fundamentally political one.
The feminist movement’s absence from the battle lines in Kiev is especially conspicuous when compared to the resurgence of Russia’s Pussy Riot.
Amidst the mud slinging, Brussels has to act or risk coming under fire for its empty rhetoric and worsening the reputational damage it’s already endured from the Ukraine crisis.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev has proposed changing his country’s name to Kazakh Eli, dropping the “stan” that links it to its former Soviet neighbors.
