


Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges
The Kremlin wants to barter the American reporter for its spies
THE INEVITABILITY of the espionage verdict against Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter, was never in doubt. Fully 99.85% of Russian trials end in conviction, and the Kremlin was not about to let this trumped-up affair prove an exception. The court sentenced Mr Gershkovich to 16 years of hard labour, just two years short of the prosecutors’ request. All eyes are on what happens next. The fact that the formal sentencing was brought forward by several weeks, at the insistence of Mr Gershkovich’s lawyers, suggested that a prisoner exchange may be in the offing.

Romania is now a magnet for the world’s medical students
But Romanian doctors are leaving

The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
The island’s Greeks and Turks seem contented, for the moment, to stay apart

J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
Millennial, MAGA champion, hillbilly…Gaullist

Romania is now a magnet for the world’s medical students
But Romanian doctors are leaving

The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
The island’s Greeks and Turks seem contented, for the moment, to stay apart

J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
Millennial, MAGA champion, hillbilly…Gaullist
Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
It may have to scale back its offensive in Ukraine
Half Ukraine’s power is knocked out; winter is coming
Ingenuity can get you only so far
France is desperately searching for a government
Party rivalry threatens deadlock before compromise