In breakaway Abkhazia, officials and vacationers are outwardly unconcerned about what the World Health Organization warns is a high risk of local transmission of the Zika virus. At the same time, though, Russian and separatist authorities say they have renewed a Soviet-era mosquito fumigation program for the first time in more than 20 years.
Sometimes political tensions can center on seemingly innocuous objects. Bridges, for instance.
As Europe laces up for Euro 2016, unsettling reports this week underscore fears that Islamic State (IS) or another radical militant group might try to violently disrupt the soccer championship or other major events this summer.
Russia is trying to move closer to several EU states in an effort to break the bloc's unity over sanctions. That is not likely to prevent the EU from renewing sanctions expiring in July, but Russia is playing a longer game.
There are plenty of things the Somaliland soccer team lacks: a training camp, a full-time coach, even an internationally recognized country to represent. And after two games in an obscure tournament in the breakaway Black Sea region of Abkhazia, the team did not have a single goal to its name.
Moldova's largest parliamentary party has introduced a bill banning "gay propaganda" to minors that is modeled on a controversial law adopted in Russia in 2013. Analysts say it is a bid to inflame tensions in society as the country prepares for a presidential election in October.
A Czech television station is at the center of a storm amid reports that it instructed its journalists to deliberately portray the migrant crisis as a serious threat to the country.
Russia's 2016 Olympic wrestling team -- once expected to be one of the best in the world -- is in shambles over in-the-ring brawls, athlete boycotts, and scandalous referee rulings.
A Moscow businessman with a front-row seat for Russia's seizure of Crimea and other actions targeting Ukraine says the "Russian World" project fell apart as a result of incompetence, infighting, and greed.
Russian media reports that an alleged former gangster has used the country’s new “right to be forgotten” law to help clean up his image.
A vegan cafe in the historic center of Tbilisi was forced to cancel an English-language video screening over the weekend when a group described by witnesses as far-right extremists threw meat into patrons' vegan dinners and started a brawl.
Some Dutch artists have released a new app that informs Russians when there is a rainbow in their area. What Russians want to do next with that information is up to them.
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