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.

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

Belarus, under dictator Alexander Lukashenko, continued to descend into totalitarianism, imprisoning people at will and ...

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

President Biden on Wednesday denounced Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, declaring the wave of missiles and drones ...

North Korean troops have now entered Russia’s war with Ukraine in a major way, and some have been killed, Western officials ...

Vladimir Putin has suggested Russia might give the West advance notice of a future hypersonic missile attack to see if ...

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 ...