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[Ticker] Norway to resume political contacts with Russia
High-level political contacts between Norway and Russia will be resumed for the first time since Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula, when foreign minister Brende visits Arkhangelsk this month and environment and industry ministers travel to Moscow in April, reports Aftenposten. “Norway and Russia are neighbouring countries....
Trump to select former UN spokesman as NATO envoy: report
U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Richard Grenell, a former U.S. spokesman at the United Nations to be the next ambassador to NATO, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Grenell was an early Trump supporter, and if confirmed by the Senate, would be the highest-ranking openly gay person in the Trump administration. In his recent stint as aÂ...
Commission gives Orbán his nuclear deal
In a European Union beset by crises, a decision Monday to approve a new nuclear power plant for Hungary showed the Commission’s limited appetite for tangling with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The EU justified its blessing of a new nuclear power plant in Hungary by saying it imposed stringent competition conditions unusual for projects of...
Russia accused of “disregarding” its international obligations
Ukraine’s deputy foreign affairs minister has accused Russia of showing “disregard” for its international obligations. Olena Zerkal was speaking at the the International Court of Justice on Monday in the case Ukraine v Russia. Zerkal said, “Ukraine has come before this Court to defend the basic human rights of its people, faced with the...
Boris Johnson: Russia ‘up to all sorts of no good’
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Monday that Russian meddling in other countries is “unacceptable” and that Russian authorities “have got to change, they have to got to show that they can be trusted again,” AFP reported. Johnson was speaking in Brussels before a meeting of European foreign and defense ministers. “Let us be very...
State Department staffers have one question: Where’s Rex?
The State Department resumes its formal press briefing on Monday — an event that offers Secretary of State Rex Tillerson an ideal setting to assert to the world that America remains a diplomatic force and reassure his jittery employees that their work matters to the new administration. But Tillerson is not expected to show up,...
Ukraine takes ‘terrorism’ case against Russia to international court
Ukraine is set to make a case against Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday, AFP reported. Ukraine formally submitted its complaints to the judicial arm of the U.N. in January, when it accused Russia of providing “financial, armed and human” support to separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine and of...
Dutch go old school against Russian hacking
THE HAGUE — Better safe than sorry. That’s the Dutch government’s approach to dealing with the fear of Russian election hacking. The tech-savvy country scaled back the use of computers to count votes and opt for an all-paper, all-manual election this month. It is one of the more drastic responses to a threat that France...
The definitive guide to Trump’s Russia ties
President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia is facing fresh scrutiny in the wake of reports that his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, failed to disclose two meetings he had last year with the country’s ambassador while he was advising Trump’s campaign. The Justice Department maintains that Sessions held...
Boris Johnson to visit Moscow soon for ‘robust’ talks
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will travel to Moscow in the coming weeks for talks with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov, making him the first U.K. minister to visit the Russian capital in more than five years. Britain’s foreign ministry said Johnson’s visit should not be seen as a resetting of the relationship between...
