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Why can’t Ukraine make it over the revolutionary hump?

The Kremlin and descendants of Russian émigrés are wrestling over influence, property, and some old clothes.

A discernible historical pattern suggests Russians and Ukrainians differ in their attitudes toward state authority and revolutionary upheavals.

The evangelical in Siberia is a YouTube sensation.

The number of foreign students studying full-time in Russia has risen by more than 60 percent over the past five years.

Win for environmentalists threatens source of scarce jobs, loggers say. Why a Kremlin propagandist cares is unclear.

The game was born in a Soviet computer lab, but this is how it became an international sensation.

The church has been pushing for a ban on abortion. The Kremlin isn’t interested.

At the elite annual schmoozefest, Putin emphasized that Russia can survive under Western pressure, and that his priority is not to lift sanctions, but to adapt to them.

Russia appears to have the upper hand in Chisinau.

Moldova’s president eagerly welcomed the forum, making Chisinau the third former-communist capital in three years to host the conservative talk shop.

Two recent commemorative events illustrate the long-standing Ukrainian-Russian church controversy

The EU and multilateral lenders are studying the project.

The wave of refugees began in the fall of 2015, when Tajikistan summarily banned the main opposition party.

Nearly a year and a half after war in eastern Ukraine with Russia and Russian-backed separatists forced over a million people to flee their homes, the Ukrainian government is still relying on hundreds of volunteers to provide help.

“Pecunia non olet (“Money does not smell”),” staff tells you at a museum dedicated to the history of toilets in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Locals in eastern Ukrainian regions are far from content with the way things are going in Kyiv — but polls show not enough to turn to Russia.

Rustam Ibragimbekov knew going up against Azerbaijan's leader in the country's presidential elections would pose a daunting challenge. But he’s finding it a big hurdle just to throw his hat in the ring.