A massive tumble in Azerbaijan's currency has shuttered shops and sent people scrambling to convert their manats into foreign currency or durable goods.
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president has a soft spot for Akhal-Teke horses -- the country's national symbol. So he has passed a new law regulating the horses' lives.
The Russian village of Vegarus lies just 70 kilometers from affluent Finland, but time has stood still on this side of the border and many residents lack even basic amenities.
Included in a massive spending bill passed by the U.S. Congress are numerous policy amendments that could have an impact on Washington's foreign policy in significant ways.
An 85-year-old Tatar man admits to killing a doctor who allegedly insulted him during an examination five years ago. The strange story has the entire Russian region of Tatarstan wondering what could feed a quiet, respected man's quest for vengeance for so long.
Svitlana Moroz, her two sons, and her elderly mother have lived in the spartan Sport hotel in Pskov, in western Russia, for nearly a year and a half now. But they and hundreds more like them who fled the fighting at home in eastern Ukraine could soon be out on the streets after Moscow in November adopted tougher new rules for the refugees.
Afghan authorities are troubled by a new radio station that has been broadcasting antigovernment propaganda in the eastern province of Nangarhar and seeking recruits for the militant group Islamic State.
Eccentric Russian political figure and world chess mogul Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says he plans to sue the U.S. Treasury for $50 billion after Washington hit him with sanctions -- and then use the money to finance a democracy promotion outfit in the United States.
The U.S. interest-rate hike is bad, and good, news for other countries. Here are some of the major effects.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual news conference on December 17, fielding questions for over three hours in one of the annual set-piece events.
A bill intended to close avenues for potential terrorists to enter the United States visa-free has left many Iranian-Americans fearing discriminatory consequences.
A 400-plus-page report by Spanish prosecutors on the alleged connections between an organized-crime gang and the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published in Russian.
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