I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two issues: The EU finally targeting Russian ...

At the request of Russia's Education Ministry, teacher Pavel Talankin helped film pro-war propaganda efforts at an elementary school. But ministry officials did not suspect he would turn his videos ...

You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on February 11, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.

A Russian drone attack struck a residential neighborhood in the city of Sumy in the northeastern Ukrainian region that borders Russia. Emergency crews rushed to extinguish fires that destroyed around ...

The shocking death of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister – and son of its founding father -- just after the 1948 Communist ...