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Kosovo's President Hashim Thaçi has been indicted by a special court for Kosovo in The Hague. The former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) and nine other former separatists are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the war of independence of the then Serbian province in 1998/1999.

In Poland, the presidential election originally scheduled for May 10 is to take place this Sunday. A victory for incumbent Andrzej Duda (PiS) was considered a foregone conclusion when the first date was set, but now polls put Duda at just 40 percent. Meanwhile Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw who only recently entered the race, is catching up. Could Trzaskowski put an end to the PiS's time in power?

In Austria, a parliamentary committee of inquiry has been set up to investigate the Ibiza affair, which led to the fall of the government of the conservative ÖVP and the far-right FPÖ in 2019. On Wednesday Sebastian Kurz, who was chancellor at the time and is chancellor now, faced questions about his party's role in the affair. What light do his answers shed on his politics?

Russia celebrated the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany 75 years ago with the largest military parade to date on the weekend - a few weeks later than originally planned due to the pandemic, and without many of the expected guests. Despite the still critical situation with coronavirus in Russia, some 13,000 soldiers marched across Red Square without masks. What did Russia gain from the spectacle?