ccording to official results, only one region in Russia recorded a majority vote against the constitutional amendments that give President Vladimir Putin the option of seeking two more terms. Kremlin allies swiftly suggested that it was a protest vote over a local issue and not a rebuke to Putin, and the elections chief claimed the result proved that the vote count was credible.
A spike in new coronavirus infections in Central Asia has forced authorities to reimpose restrictions just weeks after starting to reopen their economies. But not all governments acknowledge the coronavirus reality.
Russia’s opposition has long been riven over strategy, and this ballot exposed a major split over whether to vote against Putin’s constitutional overhaul - or to boycott the process altogether. Some opponents mounted a campaign to get out the “No” vote.
Tensions between Tehran and Washington are likely to center in the coming weeks over an arms embargo included in the 2015 nuclear deal due to expire on October 18.
After Serbia's official COVID-19 death count is challenged, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic suggests it's actually inflated and includes "XY" accident victims.
The social-media reaction was swift when eagle-eyed viewers of Mordovian public television spotted a gloved hand appearing to stuff ballots during coverage of Russia's nationwide vote on constitutional amendments enabling Putin to seek 12 more years in office.
July 1 is the final day of voting on constitutional changes initiated by President Vladimir Putin, and few see its conclusion as anything but foregone. But how will the new, overhauled constitution alter Russia and its political course, as well as the status of a longtime leader poised to win the option of securing several more years at the helm?
When a Moscow couple arrived at their local polling station to cast their ballots in Russia's weeklong vote on constitutional amendments, they were surprised to hear from election officials that their whole family had already voted, even though they hadn't. The incident has added to scrutiny of the vote, which has been marred by evidence of irregularities.
Property records reportedly tie Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to a Moscow apartment in the same building where Movsar Barayev, head of the gang that carried out the deadly "Nord-Ost" hostage-taking at a Moscow theater, lived in the days before the attack in 2002.
Amid major controversy over allegations that Russia offered incentives to Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, we take a look at Russian-Taliban relations through the years and the Kremlin's motives in Afghanistan.
Russian state TV journalist Vladimir Zharinov has quit to protest the process by which President Vladimir Putin is pushing the adoption of hundreds of constitutional amendments -- including one that could enable him to remain in the Kremlin until 2036. Zharinov denounced the process as "madness" and "a historic crime."
Over the span of five years, one man funneled hundreds of millions of dollars out of Central Asia. What he knew may have cost him his life. But before his murder, he shared with reporters a trove of documents that reveal the source of this colossal wealth: A secretive family that ran an underground cargo empire with the help of a powerful political patron.
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