As the world marks 50 years since the first crewed moon landing, more than half of Russians deny it ever took place. One blogger has capitalized on growing belief in the "lunar conspiracy" to launch an ambitious project.
With three of its citizens facing murder charges as increasingly detailed information about how Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down, Russia is still casting it as a "crash" whose cause is a mystery -- a familiar tactic when Moscow's involvement in mayhem abroad and at home leads to tragedy.
A Russian rocket is hurtling Russian and German X-ray telescopes some 1.5 million kilometers from Earth in a pioneering effort to map black holes, inspect galaxy clusters, and rewrite the history of the universe as we know it. It's a vision first put forward by Soviet scientists three decades ago.
Iranian women scream for the right to lick ice cream, while security chief says any reports of a ban are “foreign” lies.
Islamic leaders in Tatarstan have been asked to provide access to mosques in preparation for the launch of a surveillance system under orders from the Russian region's Ministry of Digital Development and Communications.
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After parliamentary elections on July 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will take a big trip abroad: to Washington. Zelenskiy shares a common background with Donald Trump, but can he win over a U.S. president who has made his desire for warmer relations with Russia clear?
In a season of elections and political change in Ukraine, a cease-fire and troop pullback in the battle-scarred town of Stanytsya Luhanska show peace in the east is possible, even as fighting flares elsewhere along the rest of the 400-kilometer-long front line.
Imams in Uzbekistan are now giving speeches to Russia-bound migrant workers, urging them to remain loyal to their families and homeland, and to stay away from terrorist groups and women.
An obscure blogger claimed to have triangulated the general location from a photograph. On a hunch, a fellow journalist and I followed it -- and found the exact spot from which international investigators later concluded that Russia-backed forces fired the Buk missile that brought down MH17.
Denied the right to marry or even have their partnerships recognized, a group of same-sex couples in Romania is challenging the law.
The daughter of Natalya Estemirova, the Russian rights activist who who was abducted and killed 10 years ago, said she blames President Vladimir Putin, the leader of Chechnya, “and the whole system that they have built” for her mother’s death.
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