German Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) Thomas Haldenwang unveiled the BfV’s annual report on Tuesday, highlighting the increasing threat of extremism in Germany as the number of crimes committed by political extremists reached a record high in 2022. According to the [...]

The Conference on Jewish Materials Claims Against Germany announced on Thursday that it successfully negotiated a deal with the German Federal Ministry of Finance on behalf of Holocaust survivors around the world. The deal means approximately $1.4 billion worth of compensation will be paid in various forms to Jewish survivors of German persecutions in World [...]

The Russian State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, voted on Wednesday to give its preliminary support to legislation that will permit its army to sign contracts with suspects or criminal convicts to take part in the war in Ukraine. According to the State Duma, the proposed legislation would authorize the country’s Ministry of [...]

The Canadian parliament voted unanimously on Friday to grant honorary Canadian citizenship to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian political prisoner and Kremlin critic, hoping that this move would increase the chances that he would be released alive. The title has only been granted to foreign nationals seven times before, including champions of human rights and democracy [...]