To answer the question — what is at stake for the United States in the poll that will determine whether incumbent President Petro Poroshenko or comedian Volodymyr Zelensky runs Ukraine for the next several years? Nothing…

The legacy of the Trump administration will be one of finally confronting vexing international problems that all recent presidents failed for one reason or another to address with any credibility…

Let’s put the fight between East and West and geopolitics aside for a moment, and focus on the human dimension…

Tensions between the European Union and Turkey have flared in recent years over Middle East migration, election campaigning by Turks inside Europe and the stalled EU accession for the Central Asian nation. The purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems by the NATO member has also ratcheted up the ill will between the EU and Turkey. The political stress now seems to be moving into the consumer arena…

It was overshadowed by the release of the Mueller report, so you may have missed the meeting of three communists and one wannabe Marxist in Paris this week…

After the unexpected resignation this week of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbaev, his chosen replacement, Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, proposed renaming the capital city of Astana. The new name is — wait for it — “Nursultan”…