This article originally appeared in January 2019. Given recent events, we thought it merited a re-up. Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, recently said BBC's Russian-language...
March 18 marked the one year anniversary of the conclusion of Turkey’s unprovoked and aggressive invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwest Syria and the beginning of the ongoing...
As you might have heard, the Russia Thing is on the loose in the United States and it’s causing a lot of consternation in the halls of power. The intellectual giant known as the president’s...
It’s been a terrible week for diplomacy. For global stability. For U.S. leadership. And for customer service. First we asked Russia to stop being communist, now we’re telling it that when it...
Attacks against the Roma community have become disturbingly common in Ukraine since the start of 2018. On Saturday 23rd June, a group of young people stormed into a Roma camp in the city of Lviv in...
She was in the bathroom when three gun shots sounded outside of her apartment in Kyiv. Arkady Babchenko’s wife ran out to find her husband lying face down in the entrance to their apartment...
About 3500 thousand attended the LGBT Pride March on Equality in Ukraine’s capital, making it the record largest Pride demonstration in Kyiv. The number of participants was said to be roughly...
In late April 2018 a mummified body alleged to be that of Iran's late ruler Reza Shah was discovered in Tehran, potentially prompting another debate among Iranians about the legacy of the first...
It’s a well known fact that Russia can make a weapon out of virtually anything. Give a Russian kid a box of crayons and a stick of gum, and the little brat will make a nuclear warhead by the time...
The Russians are coming. While people in Ukraine have been literally screaming that for a while now (with good reason), Americans have recently begun to wake up to the possibility, now that the...
