A land once emptied by war now faces a peacetime exodus VIEW
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, a low-birth rate and emigration have reduced the number of people — and are fueling ethnonationalist politicians who clamor against the dilution of...
At risk of invasion or lovely to visit: Two views of a Polish border area VIEW
With Poland’s nationalist governing party facing a tough general election in October, residents of the Suwalki Gap have been bombarded with warnings of the imminent...
A tangled past complicates Poland’s welcome to Ukrainian refugees
Poland bristles at Ukraine’s glorification of wartime nationalists but, wary of giving comfort to Russia’s view of Ukraine as a nest of fascists, it has...
Zelenskyy gets hero’s welcome in Poland, cementing Ukraine’s ties
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cemented a new axis of shared interests and military power that is pushing Europe’s center of geopolitical gravity eastward.
Finland on cusp of joining NATO, but maybe not with Sweden
Finland’s Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed all the legislation necessary for joining NATO, subject only to the ratification of its bid by the parliaments of...
At Czech spa town, ‘Russia for us is the past, and it was not pleasant’ VIEW
Hotels in the area have complained that widespread hostility to Russia and its people engendered by the carnage in Ukraine is crippling their business.
Russian troops in Belarus spur debate over the threat to Ukraine
Russia is massing thousands of troops in its western neighbor Belarus, but officials from Kyiv to Washington are casting doubt on whether the military buildup...
Belarus wavers as Putin presses it to join Ukraine war
After a meeting with Putin last weekend, Belarus' leader, Alexander Lukashenko, told military and security officials that Ukraine, Poland and NATO were “trying to drag...