November 4th is not a random date on the calendar. This day connects secular history with Orthodox tradition. The holiday ...

Russian security forces raided the homes of Crimean Tatars and detained four women in temporarily occupied Crimea on the morning of 15 October. Source: Refat Chubarov, Chair of the Mejlis of the ...

Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, You Shouldn’t Have to See This, 2024. Photo: Kaspars Teilāns, courtesy of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art “In the Baltics right now there are two artistic ...

Kazan [Russia], October 13 (ANI): On the banks of the Volga, in the heart of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, a quiet yet powerful diplomatic signal was sent this week in Kazan: India and Russia are ...

In occupied Crimea, Russian security forces are once again conducting mass searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars. The victims of these repressions are peaceful women, mothers, and students, ...

Uzbekistan, a central region in the Silk Road and Soviet Union, has long connected “East and West” through major cities like Samarkand, Bukhara and its present-day capital, Tashkent. The contemporary ...

His job has become more difficult under Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, says the Buddhist abbot. Laobuseng Jinpa is around 50 years old, an ethnic Mongol with a shaved head and dressed in deep red robes. He ...

Highlights of the successful resettlement of thousands of Jewish evacuees from the Ukraine upon land in the Soviet interior in villages from the Volga to Siberia – were made public today by the Jewish ...

The internet and other technologies are critical tools to defend rights and hold powerful actors to account. But technology can also be used in ways that curtail rights and deepen inequality. We ...

Built on an ancient site, the Kazan Kremlin dates from the Muslim period of the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate. It was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and became the Christian See of the ...

Anastasiia Malenko is a journalist covering breaking news in Ukraine. She writes about key political and economic developments in daily stories about the war. In her feature reporting, Anastasiia ...