Robert Fico published a defiant video blaming the opposition for his shooting. In other developments: a former Polish energy chief in hiding, an unremarkable Czech pre-election debate, and EU calls for increased pressure on Hungary’s rule of law failings. Three weeks after he was shot multiple times in Handlova, a …

A joint investigation by BIRN and Haaretz has identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba this year that coincided with Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros, arms that risk being used in violating international humanitarian law in Gaza. Shortly after 2 p.m. on February 5, …

With Russia’s intelligence network decimated since its invasion of Ukraine, signs from Poland point to an army of ‘useful idiots’ hired locally to carry out espionage, sabotage and arson.Poland’s government has been vocal in its warning about the risk of covert operations by Russia and said it is planning to …