Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and ex-governor of Ukraine's Odesa region who was stripped last month of his Ukrainian citizenship, says Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually face "full international isolation" as a result of tensions between Moscow and the West.
Patriarch Kirill heads to Poland this week for a historic fence-mending visit, the first by a head of the Russian Orthodox Church since the country regained independence after World War I.