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.
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.
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.
Photos released on April 20 capture the massing of Russian military hardware on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and along the Russian-Ukrainian border.
"Commander Lleshi" fought Serbs in the Croatian, Bosnian, and Kosovar wars before a sniper's bullet felled him a week before he was to return to his stronghold in southern Serbia.
A spy scandal has sent the Czech Republic’s relations with Moscow into a nosedive. Diplomats are being expelled. And the ambitions of Russia’s state nuclear company to win a new multibillion contract to build a new nuclear plant may also be a casualty.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis sparked controversy by saying the 2014 arms-depot blast described by Czech intelligence as the work of Russia was an "attack on goods" and appeared to downplay it, triggering public outrage.
Aleksei Navalny's backers have billed demonstrations planned for April 21 as the "final battle between good and neutrality," banking on a huge turnout that could protect protesters. But after a strong crackdown, fears of arrest and violence may outweigh any sense that the moment to act is now.
Satellite imagery has some fearing that an ancient monument faces “erasure” after its recapture by Azerbaijan
A large neighborhood was demolished in the Tajik city of Khujand six years ago for a new residential and leisure complex, called Chinatown and financed by Chinese companies. But the investors pulled out of the project and those promised new apartments are stuck in rentals.
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