Remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the press conference following the Foreign Affairs Council

 WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, Congressmen Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Bill Keating (D-MA) introduced H.R. 1616, the European Energy Security and Diversification Act, to help both the United States and European countries attain global energy security while also encouraging a...

 Note: Unless otherwise noted, all references in this report exclude the secessionist region of Transnistria.

 The Constitutional Court on Feb. 26, 2019. The court abolished on Feb. 26, criminal liability for illegal enrichment, deciding that it violates the presumption of innocence.

 Latvia has finished construction of the 93-kilometer-long section of the fence with the barbed wire on the border with Russia. Kristina Petersone, the press secretary of Latvian State Border Guard said that as quoted by Diena.

 The restoration of Statehood Day, is a national holiday in Lithuania, and is always celebrated on March 11 in Lithuania. This public holiday is also known as Restoration of Independence Day.

 Russia will be one third Muslim in a decade and a half, and the demographic trend is too far along to stop.

 The arrest of an American businessman in Russia echoes the Khodorkovsky and Browder episodes from the early 2000s.

 The Kremlin remains determined to establish itself as a hegemonic great power, and to follow the domestic as well as international priorities that have underpinned that objective since Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. But Russia’s wider public has become less...

 The United States congratulates the people of Moldova, the Central Electoral Commission, and the winners in the February 24 parliamentary elections. We welcome the assessment by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and...

 Western countries and watchdogs have recognised the results of the February 24 elections in Moldova - but have called on the authorities to investigate widespread allegations of voting fraud and misuse of public resources.

CHISINAU—Change comes slowly here in the Moldovan capital. Beyond the neon signs for fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s or cellphone providers such as Orange, the drab, gray streets could easily form the backdrop of a gritty Cold War spy movie.

Before the fear of being blown up on a plane, or a train, or a sidewalk gave millions of people sleepless nights, before the threat of global climate disaster stirred dread, nuclear annihilation was the stuff of nightmares.

  A significant event took place in the history of Georgia on 24 August 1995- the Parliament of Georgia adopted the Constitution of Georgia. The Constitution enshrines the will to establish a democratic, and Rule of Law based social state, to enhance the state independence and peaceful...

 I met Vladimir Putin and trusted him in the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. Now that he’s Russia’s president, he’s different. He’s no friend of democracy.

 At a Monday press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, the Ukrainian Security Agency (SBU) announced that it had intercepted passenger manifests from Russian MoD-chartered airliners transporting mercenaries working for Wagner, a Russian private military company (PMC). The manifests, involving...

 Russian president says it is ‘too early’ in investigation to consider a prisoner swap and accuses Ukraine government of provocation

 Following a Russian attack on three Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait, the Ukrainian Parliament has greenlighted a decision to impose martial law in nearly half of the country. On 26 November, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted to impose martial law in 10 Oblasts of Ukraine for 30 days...

On Sunday, delegates of the general assembly of Interpol — the International Criminal Police Organization, the coordinating body for law enforcement from 192 countries — met in Dubai for their 87th annual session. The most important agenda item will come on the final day: on...