Meet The New Public Face Of Beleaguered Nabucco 

It's been an up-and-down year for the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. Just as work on the long-stalled project seems set to finally begin, some shift -- usually at the hand of Russian energy giant Gazprom -- alters the commercial landscape and Nabucco's chances appear to recede. But the pipeline's supporters have just selected a big name in European politics to help push the project toward realization -- former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. More

Will The 'Reset' Finally Begin? 

U.S. President Barack Obama hopes to kick-start Washington's moribund relations with Moscow when he travels to Russia for his first summit meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on July 6. But the two sides face serious divisions and few are predicting the visit will produce anything close to a breakthrough. More

Wexler Says U.S.-Russia Relations 'Not Zero-Sum Game' 

U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler (Democrat, Florida) was in the Czech Republic this week to attend an international conference on the assets of Holocaust victims. During his time in the Czech capital, Prague, Wexler visited RFE/RL's headquarters, where he sat down for a broad-ranging interview with correspondent Gregory Feifer. More

Constitutional Rows Leave Ukraine In 'Legal Turmoil' 

Between 1996 and 2006, Ukraine has switched from a semi-parliamentary to a semi-presidential system, but neither model yielded political stability. If Ukraine really wants such stability, it needs to opt either for a full presidential or a full parliamentary system. More

Is EU Doing Too Little To Help Eastern Neighbors? 

It has been just over a month since the European Union attempted to draw six post-Soviet neighbors -- Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia -- closer to its orbit with its Eastern Partnership program. But a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations blasts the EU for what it calls its "complacent" and "long-term" strategy in the region, and warns that without fast action to engage the eastern neighbors, Europe could risk another "August surprise" with Russia -- More