With the NATO summit in Warsaw coming up in July, the rhetoric in many Western quarters is becoming shriller about the need to contain Russian aggression.
Nadezhda Savchenko
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Vladimir Putin’s decision to pardon Nadezhda Savchenko was a purely pragmatic one. Left with no viable alternatives to freeing the Ukrainian pilot, Putin was forced to make a concession that may not sit well with the Russian population, which has come to see Savchenko as a symbol of the “Kiev junta....
Lithuania has granted asylum to Russian opposition activist Irina Kalmykova who is wanted by the Kremlin.
Russia’s absence from the nuclear summit in Washington, DC, last week was entirely predictable and yet baffling.
A Russian court is rejecting almost all requests made by the defence lawyers of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, says a Lithuanian diplomat observing the trial, according to BNS.
Lithuania's Liberal MEP Petras Auštrevičius has initiated a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling for release of Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.