A recent survey shows that 62 percent of Russians who have not yet been vaccinated are not ready to get the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19.
While school shootings are a rare occurrence in Russia, knife attacks are relatively more common.
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 1-in-4 people in Kazakhstan say they would take a COVID-19 vaccine -- the lowest share among 116 locations that the polling organization surveyed. Here's how other countries compare.
According to a recent survey by Ipsos, 42 percent of Hungarians and 34 percent of Russians think travelers should not be required to have a vaccine passport -- the largest shares among 28 countries.
This map shows the spread of the virus as monitored by Johns Hopkins University, the WHO, and Worldometers.info.
Attacks on democratic institutions are spreading faster than ever in Europe and Eurasia, according to Nations In Transit, the annual report by Freedom House on the state of democracy in the region. The largest declines occurred in Poland and Hungary.
May 3 marks World Press Freedom Day. So what is the state of press freedom around the world? What barriers do journalists still face? And what do people in different countries think about the restrictions and liberties they are confronted with every day?
Total global military expenditure rose to almost $2 trillion last year, an increase of 2.6 percent in real terms from 2019, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth in many European countries stagnated or declined last year. The biggest decreases were observed in Spain and Bulgaria.
Between February 2014 and April 2015, six incidents were recorded at Bulgarian weapons plants and arms depots.
Here we see how big Russia's diplomatic missions are in selected countries, and how they compare to the diplomatic missions of the United States, China, United Kingdom, and Germany.
According to a recent report by the United Nations, laws or unofficial practices that allow perpetrators convicted of rape to escape criminal prosecution if they marry the women they assaulted were to some extent observed in about 20 locations around the world.
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