The Netherlands fell silent for two minutes at 8 pm on Saturday to remember the Dutch who died during World War II and in conflicts and peace keeping missions since then. The ceremony began as king Willem-Alexander and queen Maxima laid a wreath at the war memorial on Dam square in the centre of Amsterdam in front of a crowd of several thousand people. There was heavy security around the Dam because of fears the event may be hijacked by…

Thousands of Russian nationals in the Netherlands gathered outside the embassy in The Hague on Sunday to vote in Russia’s presidential elections, many of them carrying protest banners. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny had urged Russians living abroad to vote in the elections at the same moment and there were similar protests all over the globe. “Millions of Russians want the criminal war to stop and a different future for Russia,” Kristina Petrasova from Free Russia…