This article explores predictions from RFE/RL journalists for the year 2025, focusing on global conflicts, authoritarianism, and the impact of US politics on the world stage.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Georgia’s former prime minister and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, accusing him and the ruling party he founded of “undermining” the country’s “democratic and ...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened to cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the United States imposed ...

U.S. officials say the United States is expected to announce it will send another $1.25 billion in military assistance to ...

Last year, we challenged 10 of our journalists from across our broadcast region to peer into the future and predict what the ...

Russia is becoming a truly sovereign country, Vladimir Putin said during the combined Q&A session and his annual press conference. By the end of the year, the country's GDP growth could reach up to 4% ...

The tsarist Russian army, having exhausted the Prussians, was on the march and threatening Berlin. But then the unthinkable happened: Empress Elizabeth of Russia died, and her Prussophile successor, ...

Vessels of Russia's so-called shadow tanker fleet will be boarded or put on a sanctions list if they do not provide proof of ...

Autocratic regimes like Russia are becoming increasingly bold in their efforts to undermine the principles and norms that ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to allies on Tuesday to ensure the so-called shadow fleet of vessels used by ...

A new, puny sanctions package on Moscow was agreed to by EU ambassadors already on December 11, but it was more significant ...

BEIJING, December 17. /TASS/. Beijing has always maintained an objective stance on the Ukrainian situation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a conference on the international situation and ...