Politics

  Bloomberg Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived back in Kyiv on Monday to fight charges of treason, accusing his successor of crossing a “red line” with allegations that he denies. The legal standoff with a former head of state injects a level of political instability in the region as Russia amasses troops on Ukraine’s eastern frontier, a move that’s ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson faces another bruising week, with his future as UK prime minister in the balance amid a furious public backlash over rule-breaking parties at his Downing Street office. Six lawmakers in the governing Conservative Party have already called on Johnson to resign over allegations of alcohol-fueled get-togethers involving Downing Street staff when the country was in lockdown. ...

  Bloomberg President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to safeguard against attacks on the independence and integrity of the judiciary, a week after one of his cabinet ministers criticized the nation’s top judges as “mentally colonized.” “We need to protect our Constitution, our democratic state and the electoral process from anyone who wants to weaken our democracy and deny the ...

  Bloomberg The Biden administration warned Russian actors are preparing potential sabotage operations against their own forces and fabricating provocations in social media to justify an invasion into Ukraine if diplomacy fails. As part of the plan, President Vladimir Putin’s government has prepositioned operatives trained in urban warfare and in using explosives, possibly to carry out acts of sabotage against ...

  Bloomberg Hackers linked to the Belarusian security service may be behind last week’s cyberattack against Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official. The former Soviet nation endured a mass cyberattack at several of its ministries and public services on Friday. Preliminary findings show that a group of hackers known as UNC1151 from Russian ally Belarus may have led the operation, ...

  Bloomberg Aung San Suu Kyi must be involved in Myanmar’s peace process, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said in a statement that condemned the sentencing of the deposed leader to another four years in prison. “Suu Kyi is indispensable in a democratic restoration that will pose no threat of anarchy, dissolution, and civil conflict,” Locsin said Sunday. He echoed ...

  Bloomberg Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said Sunday that he believes Prime Minister Boris Johnson “broke the law and lied,” regarding parties at No 10 Downing Street held during national coronavirus lockdowns. “The prime minister has degraded the office of Prime Minister and has lost all authority not only within his own party but with the whole country,” Starmer ...

  Bloomberg Serbia may take a step closer to joining the European Union on Sunday, when voters in the Balkan nation will decide on whether to change the constitution to create a more independent judiciary in line with the 27-member bloc’s standards. Shielding judges and prosecutors from political influence is a key step in aligning the former Yugoslav republic’s laws ...

  Bloomberg Christiane Taubira, who served as justice minister in the last Socialist government, formally announced her intention to run for president in an already crowded race. “I am a candidate,” Taubira said in a speech in Lyon, weeks after first touting a possible plan to run. “I have been meeting with the French, with you, in your daily lives. ...

  Bloomberg Russia won’t wait “endlessly” for a security deal with Nato and progress depends on the US, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday, keeping up pressure after a week of high-level talks with the West failed to yield noticeable progress. “We’re waiting for written responses from our colleagues” in the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Lavrov told ...