The world food crisis is about to get worse

Press play to listen to this article Six months of fighting between Russia and Ukraine —…

Russia mulls aircraft-cannibalization scheme as sanctions bite

A shortage of parts fueled by wide-ranging sanctions has Moscow looking at how to recycle its…

Germany to miss 2 percent NATO defense spending target: think tank

Germany will fall short of its pledge to spend 2 percent of its GDP on its…

Amnesty got it terribly wrong

Uriel Epshtein is executive director of the Renew Democracy Initiative. He tweets at @UrielEpshtein.  As the…

UN grain ship departs Ukraine for East Africa

A ship chartered by the United Nations to transport Ukrainian wheat to countries at risk of…

Russian economy to contract under pressure from sanctions, central bank forecasts

The Russian central bank forecasted that the country’s economy will shrink by between 4 percent and…

Situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘very alarming,’ says nuclear watchdog

The situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has deteriorated rapidly to the point of becoming…

A visa ban won’t accomplish what Ukraine wants

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  In 1976, the dissident Russian writer Vladimir Bukovsky…

Time to turn the screw on Russia

Svitlana Zalishchuk is a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2014 to 201)9 and former foreign…

Why Germany won’t get tough on Beijing — even if it invades Taiwan

Press play to listen to this article BERLIN — Germany’s Wagnerian foreign policy spectacle is moving…