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A directive granting residency and aid is set to expire in 2027, as countries struggle to sustain millions of immigrants · The European Commission’s Special Envoy for Ukrainians in the EU Ylva Johansson. ©  Sayed Hassan/Getty Images · [RT] The EU is unlikely to extend its temporary protection scheme for Ukrainian immigrants beyond its current expiry date, the bloc’s special envoy, Ylva Johansson, has indicated. · Brussels…

The Ukrainian leader has taken aim at the Hungarian PM over his refusal to lift a veto on billions in EU loans for Kiev · ©  Ruptly · [RT] Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has issued an apparent military threat to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the ongoing refusal by Budapest to lift a veto on billions in loans underwritten by EU members for Kiev. · Orban last month blocked a planned €90 billion ($106 billion)…

Before the Iron Curtain: The centuries-old roots of the Russia–Europe rift · In 1946, Winston Churchill’s Fulton Speech symbolically marked the beginning of the Cold War between the Western world and the Soviet Union. Since then, relations between Russia and the West have been fraught with tension. In recent years, this culminated in a strong and almost existential antagonism.  · Surprisingly, just a while ago, Russia viewed Europe…

The sex-trafficker and financier who killed himself in prison is widely suspected of enabling criminal depravity for global elites · The funeral of children killed in an airstrike on a school in Minab, Iran, amid a US-Israeli attack, March 3, 2026. ©  Stringer / Anadolu via Getty Images · The strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 160 pre-teen students and teachers on the first day of the US-Israeli regime-change…

Winston Churchill’s Fulton address was a signal for the Iron Curtain to drop, and for nukes to almost drop as well ByTarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/@tarikcyrilamartarikcyrilamar.substack.comtarikcyrilamar.com · © Legion-Media /…

New Zealand’s media-politics-lobbying revolving door keeps spinning. The latest turn is the most brazen yet. · On Monday, NZME announced that Hamish Rutherford would chair its Editorial Advisory Board. The news was first reported by Shayne Currie in the NZ Herald’s Media Insider column, which described the appointment alongside other editorial changes as a “real coup” for the company. The Herald announcement itself was revealing for what it…

The New Zealand First English Language Bill has passed its first reading in Parliament, marking an early legislative milestone for the party’s policy agenda this term. Party leader Winston Peters described the vote as a victory for “common sense,” saying the legislation would provide clarity around the status of English in New Zealand law. · “This bill provides clarity and certainty in legislation of the official status of the English language…

Moscow is considering a withdrawal without waiting for a blanket EU ban on Russian resources, the president has said · Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow. © Sputnik / Gavriil Grigorov · [RT] Russia may withdraw from the European gas market and redirect its supplies elsewhere without waiting for the EU to ban its imports, President…

Slovakia has been locked in a bitter row with Kiev over Russian oil deliveries · FILE PHOTO. Power lines in Low Tatras, Slovakia. ©  Getty Images / NurPhoto / Oleksandr Rupeta · [RT] Slovakia will terminate an emergency electricity supply contract with Ukraine, state-owned energy operator SEPS has announced. · The move comes amid the continuing row between Kiev and Bratislava over the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, which…

The Russian-Polish security dilemma will likely serve as the impetus for fully unleashing and properly managing the capabilities of European NATO as a whole per the US’ National Defense Strategy. · Andrew Korybko · RT drew attention in late January to a report by Izvestia about the West’s alleged plans to launch a “Defense, Security, and Resilience Bank” (DSRB) by 2027. Their article relies on in-depth research by the Atlantic Council, …