The capital expansion, dubbed New Tashkent, could play an important role in helping the country create new jobs, draw investment and boost its economy. “It will be a hub for a lot of new economic ...

After 1,000 days of war, a makeshift memorial has grown in the heart of Kyiv with thousands of blue-and-yellow flags honoring ...

In Lviv, a bastion of national consciousness whose residents view their city as Ukraine's cultural capital, the military ...

SUKHUM, November 16. /TASS/. Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania left the republic’s capital Sukhum, his press service has told TASS. "At present, Aslan Bzhania is staying in his home village of Tamysh, ...

When asked about Yerevan’s possible participation in the upcoming CSTO events, including a summit on late November, Alexander Pankin said that this question should be addressed to the Armenian side ...

Uzbekistan is the latest country to table a new anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda law, joining a growing list of nations legislating ...

The Chechen authorities have filed new charges against Zarema Musaeva, the 55-year-old mother of two exiled opposition ...

Russian drones struck an apartment building in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa late on November 8, triggering a large fire.

Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million ...

Security forces in Chechnya carried out the raids throughout the Grozny area, detaining men for minor infractions who were ...

According to an investigation by RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service, one of the men arrested in Uzbekistan last month was also imprisoned ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...