Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, is supposed to hand Russian President Vladimir Putin a letter from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with a request for more support amid ...

FeatureOn December 9, in the Ukrainian city of Izium, our reporters found a hundred letters written by Russian children and teenagers to their countrymen on the frontlines of the invasion of Ukraine.

The letters described the bleak existence in his ... In that time, a number of events influential to his case happened. In February 2022, Russian detained another American – WNBA superstar ...

Sanctions succeed only against a hedonistic nation like the white minority in the former apartheid South Africa and never against a spartan one like North Koreans, Cubans, Iranians and now Russians.

But at least you are able to receive these letters, and most importantly share your experiences in real time. A Russian poet once urged—“Do not let your soul be lazy, to not pound water in ...

She was arrested, Antonina says, for just being a cook. Living in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which Russia now occupies after one of the bloodiest battles of the war, Vladislava ...

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A Russian distributor orders booksellers to pull works by well-known authors, in an apparent act of censorship.