The Russian authorities may have shut down his newspaper, but journalist Dmitry Muratov refuses to be silenced. When we meet in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Russia’s Nobel…
Orthodox Christian clerics say they will stay at a historic monastery in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, despite a planned government-ordered eviction of hundreds of priests, monks and students. The Pechersk…
Ukrainian investigators have searched the home of an Orthodox Church leader in Kyiv accused of justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine. Metropolitan Pavel Lebed runs the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine’s most…
The first shipment of Leopard 2 tanks from Germany has been sent to Ukraine, the German defence ministry says. Eighteen cutting-edge main battle tanks were delivered after Ukrainian crews were…
On 14 March, the Norwegian-led military exercise Cold Response 2022 started. It goes on in Norway, with main emphasis in the North, and takes place every other year, having participation…
Last week, the police issued 5,906 fines for breaking the coronavirus curfew, the police said on Monday. That is over 100 less than the 6,014 curfew fines issued the week before.…
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has dismissed several investigations into money laundering in the Netherlands by Russian oligarchs partially because it feared a political struggle, according to NRC. Investigations indicated…
Four pupils of the PassePartout primary school in Tegelen were taken to a hospital last week for observation after they tasted cocaine. They found the drugs in some bushes next…
Nato has condemned Russia’s ”dangerous” and ”irresponsible” rhetoric after Vladimir Putin’s decision to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. The organisation is ”closely monitoring” the situation and said the move…
In the centre of the Russian town of Yefremov is a wall covered in pictures of war. Giant photographs of masked Russian soldiers with guns and supersized letters Z and…