With the sides far apart on key issues as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the four-year mark, analysts say ...

India is closely watching the US legislation proposing up to 500% tariffs on countries buying Russian crude oil, emphasizing ...

People will be more willing to return if Ukraine is able to regain most of the territory seized by Russia since 2014, Hladun ...

Russia has used its latest missile against Ukraine for a second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, a forceful signal to Kyiv ...

China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

From Siberia to the Far East, poorer regions are supplying Russia’s war at a growing human cost. A new analysis shows why ...

Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia ...

The foundation of governance – peace, security, and stability – seemed shaken in several parts of Africa, exposing a sizable portion of its 1.4 billion population to death, danger, and untold hardship ...

A theatre that became one of the bombed out symbols of a Russian siege of the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine in 2022 has reopened after a huge redevelopment, Russian authorities have announced.

The Estonian border fence separating Russia from NATO, as seen near Lutepää in southern Estonia in November 2025. (Linus Höller/staff) LUTEPÄÄ, Estonia — Across the snowy and muddy forests of eastern ...

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged to ...

For a quarter of a century, Russian president Vladimir Putin has grappled with his country’s declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis pre-dates his ascent to power, with the nation ...