A wave of immigrants arrived in France from Chechnya during the early 2000s after the wars with Russia. A minority of this Muslim community has been radicalized, including an 18-year-old who beheaded a French schoolteacher in October.
Cold War-style propaganda isn't helping the Kremlin win over young Russians. For that, President Vladimir Putin has turned to social media and its teenage fans.
After the fall of Aleppo, various alliances of convenience will be put to the test, as the scenario suddenly gets more complicated for both Damascus and Moscow.
The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize does not approach its task the way the Academy assigns the Oscars. The Nobel is not a trophy to crown an achievement as much as a message … ...
DONETSK — Komsomolets Donbas is one of the largest coal mines in the Donetsk region in eastern......
MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA TO RESCUE MIGRANTS Malaysia and Indonesia have pledged to provide temporary shelter to the estimated 7,000 migrants believed to be stranded at sea, a......
Fleeing war in eastern Ukraine's Donbas, and even Crimea, some Ukrainians are finding life difficult in the capital.
Troops fighting around the world are often chasing enemies from somewhere else. A global tour of how the shards of 'broken nations' are fed into the conflicts of others.
Parallel portraits in the making of a civil war: one man is fighting for Kiev, the other is a Russian separatist.
By destabilizing the situation in Ukraine, the Russian president became party to the death of the 298 passengers of the MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
The new Ukrainian president's attempt at peace has failed. What now?
MOSCOW — The funeral for the two young men was held on June 7 in a church in Kubinka, near Moscow. Aleksander Efremov and Alekei Yurin had gone to Donbas in th......
ROSTOV-ON-DON — When military airplanes started buzzing over ...
Monday, June 2, 2014 BATTLE AROUND LUHANSK...
From a once-contested region in the Russian Federation, anti-Kiev forces are spotted in the battleground eastern region of Ukraine. They are "more Russian than the Russians," says one.
Although the number of foreign workers has declined sharply in Russia, Muscovites in particular fear the influx of immigrants - not that they necessarily want to do their jobs.
LE FIGARO, FRANCE 24, LIBERATION (France), DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)Worldcrunc......
OP-ED - As the world’s eyes were focused on the Olympic Games in London and Bashar al-Assad's killer tanks and planes battered Syria throughout the summer, ...
KAZAN - Nobody has the exact numbers. The arrests are only talked about when the suspect is someone already well-known in the region. People like Artyom Kalashov, a Russian we......
While commentators debate who stood to gain from an alleged plot to kill Putin just days before the presidential election, there is reputed evidence going back several months that might connect the dots.
