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Acting on "profoundly flawed assumptions," President Vladimir Putin was wildly wrong about how the large-scale invasion of Ukraine would go when he launched it five months ago -- but he seems to believe Russia is winning. Is he wrong again?

Flights have resumed, borders have reopened, and COVID-19 restrictions have eased. But the tourism industry in Central Asia doesn't seem to be fully back on its feet yet.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing big changes for China’s Belt and Road Initiative across Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran on July 19 to bolster ties with Tehran. In only his second trip abroad after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, Putin met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

St. Petersburg artist Aleksandra Skolchilenko has spent more than three months in pretrial custody for her activism against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In an interview from jail, Skolchilenko describes the conditions behind bars and tells RFE/RL why she won’t stop speaking out

With Western sanctions against Russia keeping international companies away, Chinese shipping routes across Eurasia are bypassing the country and looking at underused southern networks to move goods to Europe.  

Zhazira Asenqyzy was a popular author and successful entrepreneur until her world came crashing down when she was thrown into one of China's notorious camps in its Xinjiang Province where Muslims are sent without charges or a trial.

In 2018, a Bulgarian woman who grew up in France made a documentary about her family's communist past and her shock at discovering that her mother was a secret police informer. Now, her mother, who had misgivings about her daughter's film, has told her own side of the story.

Nearly 17 years after having been granted EU candidate status, North Macedonia finally looks set to start EU accession negotiations. It will be a cause for celebration among many in Skopje, but also a cause for concern.

Hungary has outlawed all private institutions from offering IVF treatment, with the government saying it wants to make the procedure more accessible and help stop the shrinking of the population. Instead, fewer people are able to receive fertility treatment and many are looking to go abroad.