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Study: violence against women widespread in Eastern Europe
Seventy percent of women in eight Eastern European countries have experienced sexual harassment, stalking, domestic abuse or other types of violence since the age of 15, according to a study published on Wednesday. Psychological violence, such as controlling or abusive behaviour, is the most widespread form of domestic violence reported in the...
The woman taking on sports’ old boys’ club
VIENNA — If the sports world’s reformers were to pick the next head of the global anti-doping regulator, chances are they would choose Linda Helleland. As vice president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Norwegian politician has been a harsh critic of what she describes as an insular, old-boys’-club culture in sports governance —...
Sleaze scandals stalk Ukraine campaign
KIEV — It’s certainly not how Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expected to kick off his final month of campaigning. Last week, just over a month before Ukrainians head to the polls on March 31 to choose a new president, journalists uncovered an embezzlement scandal involving military hardware that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The...
US lawmakers probe Trump’s ties with Deutsche Bank
House Democrats are planning to cross one of President Donald Trump’s red lines: investigating his personal finances. With special counsel Robert Mueller expected to wind up his work soon, Democrats are launching an investigation to discover why Deutsche Bank was willing to lend the Trump Organization money when other banks wouldn’t...
May and Merkel talk Brexit, no sign of breakthrough
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Theresa May and Angela Merkel held a fresh round of Brexit talks at the EU-Arab League summit Monday — without any new breakthrough emerging. Over breakfast, the U.K. prime minister and German chancellor discussed the latest Brexit developments, with Merkel pressing May on claims in the British press that the U.K. may...
Ukraine’s crisis of faith
VORSIVKA, Ukraine — For years, Father Vasily spent his Sundays behind the altar at St. Nicholas, a church in the small town of Vorsivka, in north-central Ukraine. That all changed in early January, not long after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially split from the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church in one of the biggest schisms in Christian...
Merkel’s go-it-alone legacy
BERLIN — No one has ever described Angela Merkel as being a gifted orator. That must be why her speech to the Munich Security Conference over the weekend was met with standing ovations and even hailed as “historic” by some. Instead of droning along in her trademark monotone as she usually does, speaking without really saying anything, Merkel...
A peaceful solution stood no chance | Ukrayinska Pravda – Ukraine
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Eastern Europe’s problem isn’t Russia
There’s an enemy stalking the post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe — undermining governments, attacking the economy and sowing instability. Russia? No. The greatest threat to countries like Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine lies in their own poor governance and abuse of informal power. And while these weaknesses make them more vulnerable to...
Ex-NATO chief: Russia to launch ‘major’ effort to meddle in EU election
MUNICH — Russia will use unprecedented means to disrupt the upcoming European Parliament election, former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned on Friday. “There is no doubt that Russia will be a major malign actor,” Rasmussen told POLITICO in an interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. At the same time, it is...
