After years of delay and enormous cost overruns, Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome is expected to host its first test launch in the next few weeks. However, that doesn't mean smooth sailing for the troubled project.

More than 1 million people have fled eastern Ukraine since war erupted in April 2014. Some have since returned. Others never left. From teachers to pensioners to families with children, residents of separatist-held towns are struggling to get on with their lives amid the chaos and uncertainty. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service continues to publish their testimonies. The names of the authors of the letters have been changed to protect them.

Reuters this week published allegations that several women reportedly tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been given luxurious residences by a businessman also connected with the president. But as similar reports in the past have shown, much of the Russian public has been conditioned to turn away.

An uptick in fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists reported by OSCE monitors in recent weeks has weakened a shaky truce between the combatants.

At the dawn of perestroika, and a nadir in his career, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs traveled to Moscow to sell his idea of producing the company's new line of personal computers in the Soviet Union. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the computer company's birth, we look back on what is known of Jobs's visit today.

Political demonstrations in Russia are a fraught matter these days, not to mention arbitrary, as journalists in the country’s fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, have found.

The head of the International Bar Association tells RFE/RL he thinks judges at the UN war crimes court were wrong to rule on March 31 that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj was not guilty of crimes against humanity.

It's not loose nukes that worry experts but rather nuclear materials like plutonium that could be used in a terrorist dirty bomb.

Crimean-born, Russian chess star Sergei Karjakinspeaks about his upcoming bid to become world chess champion, his decision in 2009 to play for Russia instead of his native Ukraine, and his staunch support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.