Discover Vladivostok, the capital of Primorsky Krai and the second-largest city in the Russian Far East, located over 9000 kilometers from Moscow. With a population of just over 600,000, this region ...

Moscow captured an area four times the size of Kyiv in 2024. RFE/RL photojournalist Serhiy Nuzhnenko took these images just before Russian troops moved in. Over the course of 2024, the Ukrainian ...

Ksenia Karelina thought she was going to visit family in Russia in January 2024, but authorities there had other ideas. They detained the 32-year-old because of a small donation she made to support ...

A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind. Dmitriy ...

Civilians gather to receive drinking water distributed by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Mariupol on May 27, 2022, after the seaside city in eastern Ukraine fell to Moscow's troops. (AP ...

For Dmitry, a father of two in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine has been a nuisance in his life more than anything else. The IT professional, who opposes ...