Corruption fuels the climate crisis, endangering life-saving funds. CPI 2024 reveals urgent need for transparency to safeguard billions at risk.

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

In 2024, trade between Belarus and Pakistan grew by 4.6%, Belarusian Energy Minister Aleksei Kushnarenko told journalists ...

Former Soviet satellite state Poland has unleashed the power of its homegrown talent to create faster economic growth and ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Ukraine’s allies have warned against the European Union reopening Russian gas pipelines as part of a prospective peace ...

Since the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, opened on the same day as Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president in the USA, the news coverage of the WEF annual meeting 2025 ...

The European Commission has proposed further tariffs on a range of agricultural products and fertilizers from Russia and ...

Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition. With his opponents ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus Jan 26, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] MINSK -- Incumbent ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as ... of those mass demonstrations amid economic troubles and the fighting in Ukraine ...

MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) - Russia is facing a lot of economic challenges, which means that things will not be easy in Belarus either, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told the media in ...