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The Kremlin’s candidate
Back when he hosted a prime-time talk show on MSNBC, Ed Schultz divided the world into heroes and villains. The heroes usually included Democrats like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The villains were most Republicans, and especially Donald J. Trump. When Trump obsessed over Obama’s birth certificate and academic credentials in 2011,...
Donald Trump’s Russia connections
WASHINGTON — Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has proudly disdained the knowledge of experts, particularly within the realm of foreign policy. “I watch the shows,” the Republican frontrunner infamously said last year on “Meet the Press” when questioned about where he had gained knowledge of military matters. Asked with whom he...
Angry 8: Inside Germany’s far-right AfD
BERLIN — The far-right Alternative for Germany has turned German politics on its head, but leadership squabbles threaten to derail the party’s rapid rise. Founded in 2013 as a protest party calling for the abolition of the euro and an end to bailouts given to EU members, it has developed into a far-right force to be reckoned with and now...
Decades after Chernobyl, Ukraine hooked on nuclear more than ever
Three decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the home of the shuttered Chernobyl power plant remains more reliant than ever on nuclear power. When a botched test in the early hours of April 26, 1986, blew apart the reactor’s core and spewed huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere, nuclear power accounted for about a...
EU leaders agree to uphold Russia sanctions, US says
Leaders of France, Germany, Italy, UK and US agree to uphold Russia sanctions unless it stops the war in Ukraine, the US says. But some French and German MPs want to lift them in July. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Father of Polish ‘shock therapy’ joins Ukraine government
Polish economist and former deputy prime minister Leszek Balcerowicz, who led Poland’s economic transition after communism, was appointed as the president’s representative in the new Ukrainian government. “I have to show [Ukraine’s] achievements that are not always noticed by the West,” Balcerowicz said after his...
In pictures: Chernobyl, 30 years later
Over the past eight months, Getty Images has sent its Berlin-based photographer, Sean Gallup, to Chernobyl and the surrounding villages to document what life is like there 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident. Long-term effects continue to this day, as Gallup’s photographs show. A sign warns of radiation near...
Chernobyl poisoned my childhood
On a warm spring evening on the last day of April 1986, my grandmother, a doctor, rushed to my parents’ house after work. “Don’t take Zoya outside and close the windows,” she told my mother. “Something has happened.” Earlier that day, a colleague whose husband was a high-ranking KGB officer had whispered that an accident had occurred...
Danish People’s Party wants EU referendum too
Denmark should follow the Brits and hold a referendum on membership of the European Union, the leader of the far-right Danish People’s Party said Monday. Kristian Thulesen Dahl wrote on his website that Denmark should try to win similar concessions from the EU if the U.K. votes to stay within the EU in the June 23 referendum. If the Danish...
5 takeaways from the Serbian election
BELGRADE — The gamble of former ultranationalist turned pro-EU Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić paid off — calling a snap election two years early saw him return to power with another landslide. But now that he’s won a four-year mandate, Vučić has to prepare Serbia for EU membership. While Vučić insists he is committed to reform and...
