Crimea has been governed by Russia-backed Sergey Aksyonov since February 2014, after Russia illegally invaded and annexed Crimea. Weeks after the annexation, fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 17th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.

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They were swallowed by the jungle, buried underground or covered by reconstruction. And since 1975, these explosives have caused an estimated 100,000 causalities, including 40,000 deaths, according to ...

Estonian government approves additional funding to raise defence spending to 5.4% of GDP Estonia’s government approved the multi-billion Euro plans that will ...

Armenia has allegedly laid landmines in occupied territories, reportedly with political, economic, and logistical support from France. As negotiations toward a peace treaty move forward, France has ...

THE first picture of the alleged Ukrainian suspect in the car bomb killing of a senior Russian war general has been revealed.

THIS is the dramatic moment a senior Russian war general was brutally killed in a huge car bombing in Moscow.

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Karabakh covers the southeastern stretch of the Lesser Caucasus mountain range. The region was occupied and governed by ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. peace plan that would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stipulate that Ukraine could never join ...

Today, the Estonian government took a decisive step by approving a draft proposal to present to the Riigikogu (Parliament), ...