A high-profile US lobbyist, William Burke-White, will aim to persuade the US government to press Ukraine to reconsider a ban on a branch of the Orthodox Church it deems subordinate to Moscow.
The death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, the latest Kremlin irritant neutralized in suspect circumstances, likely means the end of Russia’s use of mercenaries in its foreign policy.
Sinan Oğan, who entered the election as a non-partisan presidential candidate from Ata Alliance, has emerged as a game changer in the landmark May 14 polls, as he surprisingly took around 5 percent of the vote and stopped his rivals from winning outright.