Officials are signaling their intention of tagging three groups tied to jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, including his network of regional offices, as "extremist organizations." His representatives around the country say that they will continue their work even under the threat of prison.
Up to 1.2 million Armenians were killed in World War I-era atrocities in the Ottoman Empire. What happened in Turkey starting in 1915 and why might Joe Biden become the first U.S. president to recognize the mass killings as genocide?
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President Vladimir Putin stuck to a familiar narrative of unity in his annual address, while crowds of protesters demanding Aleksei Navalny's release told a different story.
A newly opened museum by Azerbaijan inspired by last year's war with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh has been criticized for belittling Armenians and disrespecting those who died in the fighting.
Czech officials blame a secretive Russian military intelligence unit for a 2014 explosion at an ammunition depot. Members of that same unit were traveling in Bulgaria around the same time that six explosions hit Bulgarian weapons factories in 2014 and 2015.
A study of 100 Chinese contracts shows how the world’s largest creditor uses secretive loans to its political and economic advantage.
Thirty-five years after Soviet Ukraine's infamous nuclear disaster, a photographer has uncovered the haunting and often carefully maintained World War II monuments that endure in the forests of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Analysts say the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan could allow Iran to expand its influence in the region, though any uptick in violence after the pullout could create additional burdens for Tehran.
Photographer Olga Ivashchenko joined forestry workers helping Ukraine's wild bison survive through the harsh winters of the Carpathian Mountains.
In his speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin focused mainly on domestic matters, painting a picture of unity months ahead of important elections. He dropped no foreign-policy bombshells but delivered warnings to the West.
A Kazakh woman is fighting to bring justice to five men she says tried to kidnap her and force her to into marriage. The victims of bride kidnapping -- a local custom in parts of Central Asia -- often don't report incidents to police and stay in such marriages to avoid social disgrace.
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