President Putin has appointed an official to supervise the country’s exit from the suspended 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Russia has indicated its intention to formally withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a military transparency agreement that is currently suspended. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has been selected…

Officials have been instructed to call Kaliningrad by its Warsaw-preferred name, ‘Krolewiec’ Poland’s decision to call the Russian city of Kaliningrad ‘Krolewiec’, as it was known in the 15th century, “borders on madness,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Warsaw objects to the city’s current name because of its association with a Soviet statesman, whom Warsaw…

Negotiations aimed at providing safe passage for agricultural produce via the Black Sea are set to start this week Grain exports from Ukraine are plunging ahead of this week’s talks in Istanbul on extending the Black Sea grain deal, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.