Lyubov Sobol, a driving force of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, is among the outsiders hoping to break United Russia's monopoly hold over the Moscow city council. But forces tied to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin seem to be pulling out all the stops to derail her.
Darth Viktorovych Vader, director of Dark Side of the Force, LLC, has been appointed by the Bloc of Darth Vader party to run for a parliamentary seat in Odesa.
Dmytro Firtash, the Ukrainian power broker whom the United States is seeking to put on trial, built his massive fortune on opaque gas trading with a Kremlin-controlled company.
Since the settlement of a decades-long name dispute, Macedonians continue to face needling from critics of the process that was supposed to clear their path to the EU and NATO.
State investigators elected by Bulgaria's ruling GERB party say they're unable to find any conflict of interest involving GERB officials who got lucrative luxury apartment deals after helping a Sofia real-estate developer.
As protests over Russian influence continue to rock Georgia, Moscow is hinting at a form of punishment its former Soviet dependencies know all too well: a ban on their most popular staples.
A bitter dispute playing out at a haunting mass grave site 1,000 kilometers north of Moscow and in the courtrooms of Russia's north is part of a broader, intensifying struggle over interpretations of the country's Soviet past.
How Kazakhstan is trying to rehabilitate Islamic State returnees.
Ukraine’s new president says relocating the administration offices will help dispel a reputation for corruption in government and encourage transparency. Critics worry about the cost and say the move to a busy Kyiv intersection may make traffic jams worse.
Carnegie Europe's Thomas de Waal helps unpack the sources of Georgia's unrest (hint: "grudge match") and Tbilisi's bedeviled relations with Russia (despite popular attitudes).
Vietnam wants Russian help assessing the state of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh's mummified corpse.
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