Several Thai women who came to Georgia to be surrogate mothers have said they were held hostage in Tbilisi and their eggs ...

All eyes will be on southern Germany this weekend as world leaders assemble at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof for the three-day Munich Security Conference.

After more than three years in a Belarusian prison, RFE/RL journalist Andrey Kuznechyk is finally free. In an interview from Vilnius, RFE/RL President & CEO Steve Capus comments on the emotional ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine could offer to give up territory it controls in Russia's Kursk region in exchange for Russian-controlled Ukrainian land. Some Ukrainian citizens ...

They're in smartphones, laptops, and fighter jets -- rare earths are a critical component in microchips and artificial intelligence. They're also at the heart of a growing geopolitical struggle for ...

The mayor of Kyiv is feuding with the president. The defense minister is under investigation as part of a bitter fight over ...

Can Putin revive the Soviet-era Eurovision?

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 ...