Vorkuta was once the centre of a sprawling network of coal mines scattered around the Arctic city of 220,000 residents like the hour indicators on a vast clockface. Today, most of the settlements are ghost towns, and time is ticking away as a shrinking Vorkuta fights to avoid the same fate.
The de facto president of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arayik Harutiunian, is battling to stay in power following the humiliating defeat of Armenian forces in its war last year with Azerbaijan
Jailed Kremlin opponent Aleksei Navalny's claims that prison authorities are deliberately harming him instead of healing him have focused attention on health care -- or the lack thereof -- in Russian penitentiaries.
A family photo archive reveals life behind the public facade of Romania's notorious communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.
Ukraine's IT industry grew by 20 percent in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic hit hard but bolstered demand for digitalization. Can cash-strapped Kyiv find a way to tax the tech sector without scaring away "top talent"?
Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
Military movements and bellicose talk raise concerns about the Kremlin’s intentions regarding Ukraine again, seven years after the seizure of Crimea and the start of a war in the Donbas. Meanwhile, the condition of Russia’s most prominent prisoner, Aleksei Navalny, causes growing concern.
The European Court of Human Rights has been flooded with thousands of filings accusing Kyiv of rights violations in the conflict-ridden Donbas, in what appears to be a coordinated campaign to tar Ukraine, an investigation by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has found.
Russia has reopened its borders for Tajiks after a year of pandemic-related restrictions -- and hundreds of thousands in the remittance-dependent country are desperate to work in Russia. But the skyrocketing price of plane tickets means many won’t be able to travel anytime soon.
Is the Ukrainian-Russian "cold war" about to go "hot"?
A new era for BRI, Beijing’s deal with Iran, and Montenegro’s China debt: Welcome back to the China in Eurasia briefing, a Radio Free Europe newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Divisions within Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have spilled into public view ahead of a June presidential election.
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