François Hollande’s Affair: Scandal Reveals a Changing France
A French magazine’s exposé into the French President’s love-life marks a departure from the country’s previous nonchalance over the peccadilloes of its premiers
A French magazine’s exposé into the French President’s love-life marks a departure from the country’s previous nonchalance over the peccadilloes of its premiers
Efraim Zuroff never aspired to become the world’s most prominent Nazi hunter. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s, his dream was to be the first Orthodox Jew to play basketball in the NBA. That would have been a career, he says, …
Facing the clear threat of terrorism, the Sochi Winter Olympics will take place amid an unprecedented security lockdown that may make the experience of the quadrennial event far from cheerful for fans and athletes
Russian President Vladimir Putin grabbed international headlines last week with a pre-Christmas amnesty that included the release of a number of prominent dissidents. Those freed aren’t exactly glowing with praise for Putin, though
Moscow’s diplomatic victory in Ukraine was a thumb in Brussels’s eye. It’s all part of the Kremlin’s emboldened foreign policy.
As part of a wider amnesty, the Russian President announced he intends to release his greatest political rival, the jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It’s a mark of just how comfortable Putin is in power.
The hand of U.S. diplomacy swept down over Ukraine this week with an odd bit of American largesse — a plastic bag of bread. Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, bore the bag on …
The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has disbanded long-running state news agency RIA Novosti and reorganized it under a new, even more propagandistic operation — a sign, critics fear, of Putin’s deepening authoritarianism
To many Ukrainians, integration with Europe isn’t just about E.U. money but a commitment to E.U. standards of governance and social justice
Germany is skirting an international deal on the restitution of art to Holocaust victims, U.S. negotiator tells TIME
Ukraine’s decision to rebuff E.U. pressure and keep opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko behind bars firmly puts the East European nation in Russia’s camp
Under German law, art hoard found in Munich likely belongs to the son of Hitler’s art dealer
Joy Womack’s claim that a director demanded $10,000 in exchange for a lead role is one of many scandals to plague the famous theater