Down in Samara on the Volga river, the city’s higher education institutions are facing cuts and closure. And many people are far from happy.
Renewed tensions along the de-facto border between Georgia and South Ossetia have raised concerns in Tbilisi—and laid bare Georgia's political rivalries.
After a deadly fight between a volunteer battalion and local police over smuggling in the country's western borderlands, Ukraine finds itself at another critical juncture.
What is exactly stopping a solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine?
В арабской стране потомки черкесов, вытесненных из царской России после завоевания Кавказа, всегда чувствовали себя гостями. Но историческая родина сирийских беженцев принимает неохотно. English
Long exiled from their homeland, Circassians are now seeking refuge in the Caucasus following conflict in their adopted home, Syria. Adjusting to life in Russia has not been easy. Русский
In 2010, the Osh region in southern Kyrgyzstan was riven by ethnic violence in the aftermath of revolution. And still nobody wants to talk about it.
How has a motorcycle club managed to entangle itself so closely with Russia’s political and religious elite?
In another manifestation of the absurd, Russia's latest investigation into the legality of Baltic independence uses the very tactics used by dissident movements against Soviet rule.
Kyrgyzstan, the ‘Switzerland of Central Asia’, has been moving closer to Russia, with perhaps predictable results.
The Russian government is throwing money at its new cosmodrome in the Far East. Its workers, however, have seen very little of it. Русский
Down on the Black Sea, ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakasvhili is making waves as the new governor of Odessa. Is the balance of the Ukrainian state beginning to shift?
