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For millions of people in Ukraine, access to potable water has been badly compromised by Russia's invasion, creating health risks that exacerbate the dangers of war -- and leaving civilians and officials scrambling for solutions.

Tallinn has declared the imminent removal of Soviet monuments from public spaces across Estonia. Here's a look at some of the Baltic country's communist-era memorials and statues while they're still standing.

An increasing number of Kyrgyz citizens are using dangerous routes through Mexico to illegally cross into the United States. They pay thousands of dollars to people smugglers. Some of them end up in Mexican jails while others face deportation even after entering the United States.

In a candid interview, former U.S. diplomat Daniel Fried talks about what the United States got wrong (and right) about the 2008 Georgia-Russia war and why, with an unprecedented and ferocious Russian war on Ukraine, it now matters more than ever.

Heviz has long been a popular destination for Russians but the coronavirus pandemic and now Russia's war on Ukraine have ended the stream of Russian tourists seeking rest, relaxation, and restorative waters. Locals fear that Heviz might never recover.

At the age of 76, Elene Chantladze is just beginning her career as an internationally celebrated painter. After many years spent in a loveless marriage in rural Georgia, Chantladze has finally found freedom in her art.

At the beginning of August, a program in Georgia offering free housing to Ukrainian refugees ended. Many of its grateful beneficiaries, their savings already drained, are now scraping around for a new place to stay.

Belarusian blogger and critic Syarhey Tsikhanouski was the first person arrested in Alyaksandr Lukashenka's heavy-handed crackdown leading up to his internationally contested presidential win in August 2020, and he's spent much of the time since in solitary confinement.

As Moscow’s use of unprovoked force grinds on 24 weeks after the invasion turned a simmering conflict in the Donbas into a full-scale war that has killed tens of thousands of people, another of Putin’s go-to foreign and domestic policy tools came into the spotlight this month: the trial.

In the forests of Bulgaria, thousands of truffle hunters and their dogs are supplying the Western market with ultra-luxury fungi.