Eastern Europe

Russia could have done something to prevent sexual exploitation of foreign women during the World Cup. It chose not to.

Post-1945, post-1968, and post-1989 Europe are all different — and none of them make sense anymore.

The new Spanish prime minister has refused to follow Italy in a race to the bottom, but that doesn’t mean that Madrid will lead the EU to adopt more humane migration policies.

A Russian media executive says he’s come to Washington to test the limits of American freedom.

Viktor Orban may have won, but a narrow loss in the countryside suggests that corruption could one day be his undoing.

The Jobbik party, once known for its overt racism and anti-Semitism, is trying to reinvent itself as the responsible voice of the center.

The outgoing national security advisor took one last swipe at Putin’s efforts to undermine Western democracies.

Russian corruption starts small but quickly spreads.

By condoning corruption and denouncing the press, Slovakia's government created an atmosphere in which journalists became targets.

The Marshall Plan recognized the limits of U.S. power in Europe. To be successful, so must diplomacy with Moscow today.

Tokyo is ramping up international partnerships and investments to offer an alternative to Beijing’s signature foreign-policy project.

Czech President Milos Zeman’s re-election sends a clear message.

The EU is finally declaring it's a club with rules — and that countries like Poland might not belong.

Russian disinformation. A government attacking the media. A populace deeply skeptical of it. These Slovak journalists had seen it all — and decided to do something about it.

Baltic and Nordic countries turn to education as much as military hardware to counter Moscow’s hybrid threats.

Central Europe and the Balkans are slowly but surely slipping away from the West’s embrace.

How an octogenarian businessman became the bogeyman of Europe.

The Trump administration just made it harder for Russians to enter the United States ... and gave the Kremlin an easy win.

The Russian president’s decision to cull 755 U.S. Embassy employees was not the act of a man ready to give up on relations with the United States.

The ex-president of Georgia, stripped of both Georgian and Ukrainian citizenship, is sitting in a relative’s apartment in the Bronx, plotting his next move.