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Two senior EU officials are heading for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the first visit by Western leaders since the alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha emerged earlier this week.

The U.S. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to remove favorable trade status for goods from Russia and Belarus and to ban the import of Russian oil and other energy products.

Former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid spoke to RFE/RL's Georgian Service about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In the interview, she called on NATO allies to give the Ukrainians as many weapons as they can and for sanctions to continue beyond a possible cease-fire.

Belarusian journalist Katsyaryna Andreyeva, who is serving a two-year prison sentence for covering protests against authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has now been charged with high treason just ahead of her release.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant firebrand whose outlandish persona couldn't quite hide his submissive role in President Vladimir Putin's political system, is dead at 75. In Ukraine, evidence of atrocities mounts as a Russian retreat in the north exposes horrific scenes of death and devastation.

An English teacher in Penza is facing prosecution after students recorded her criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine. Teachers, activists, and others have increasingly been targeted by denunciations – often anonymous – that remind some of the darkest repressions under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

An investigation by Current Time and Meduza looks at the secretive life of the Dutch man who is believed to have been Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law -- the husband of Putin’s eldest daughter, Maria.

A former director and adviser for Loan Market has returned, to become its parent group’s new chief operating officer.  

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says he has summoned Russia's ambassador to Paris over an "obscene" tweet that tried to portray the massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha as fake.

HUGE congratulations are in order for Dierks Bentley!