Ukrainian rescuers discovered a shaken but spirited canine survivor in the ruins of a Sumy region home following overnight ...

You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on April 22, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.

Belarusian comedian “Evil Sasha” turns trauma into dark humor on stage in Vilnius. Scarred by a fire and injured in 2020 protests, she fled to Lithuania. Now her sharp jokes blend laughter with the ...

Sasha Hushcha suffered severe burns early in life and endured bullying in childhood. In 2022, she left her native Belarus for Lithuania because she feared political persecution. Today, she's mining ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88.

Russian bloggers and tabloids warn of “black widows” -- women allegedly marrying soldiers to claim death benefits if they die fighting in Ukraine. The claims are stoking public outrage and raising ...

Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are being warned about so-called "black widows" -- women who seduce and marry them with the aim of collecting their military death benefits. As RFE/RL's Andrey ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on the uncertain path of the "coalition of the ...

An 18-year-old Ukrainian recently told RFE/RL how she was interrogated by Russian security officers as she tried to leave Russian-occupied Ukraine. "Why don't you want to marry a Russian military man?

Iranian and US negotiators agreed to hold a third round of high-stakes talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions, a positive signal ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 500 prisoners of war in the latest swap brokered by the United Arab Emirates. Video filmed ...