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The coastal city, a battleground for weeks, is under an increasingly relentless Russian assault that is taking an unspeakable toll.

Lithuania should step up patriotic education in Russian-language schools, a member of the local Russian community said o...

The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, says the bloc should start formal accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania as soon as possible to enhance the security and defense of the Balkans as concerns that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will create volatility throughout the region.

The Chernobyl nuclear plant has lost power again after Russian forces damaged a high-voltage power line to the plant for the second time, Ukraine's national energy company, Ukrenergo, said on March 14.

Kazakh officials have given contradicting death tolls from the anti-government protests in January that led to the removal of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev and his relatives from the country's political scene.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin says the mandatory wearing of masks in public places will be lifted in the city as of March 15, while a ban on public gatherings and demonstrations introduced two years ago as part of coronavirus precautions will remain.

Squatters have taken over the central London property belonging to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, saying they have "liberated" the mansion and plan to use it to house Ukrainian refugees.

European Union member states have agreed on a fourth package of sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, the office of the French EU presidency has announced.

Kazakhstan has limited flows of hard currency and gold out of the country amid an ongoing economic downturn in neighboring Russia after Moscow was hit with sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.

MOSCOW — On a wintry January day in 1990, the grand opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in what was then the Soviet Union was hailed as an emblem of