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Why Chinese investment could dry up in Russia, Beijing’s ‘inadvertent empire’ in Central Asia, and the meaning of Serbia’s new anti-air system.

For the past year, Iran and the United States have been locked in indirect talks to restore the 2015 nuclear accord. A draft deal to revive the agreement is already on the table, but an unrelated issue has complicated matters.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk says there's a price being paid for misguided policies vis-a-vis Putin's Russia -- and it's being paid most horrifically by Ukrainians. But the fates of Georgians and Moldovans are at stake, too.

A week after the sinking of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, relatives of sailors are desperately trying to find out the fates of more than 500 seamen who were on board. Silence from the Russian command, and the lack of an explanation from the Kremlin, have fueled anger and disbelief.

Deficits. Defectors. Denunciations. Analysts have long said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies are partly driven by nostalgia for the Soviet Union. As Moscow's war in Ukraine nears its third month, that nostalgia is increasingly coming true as long-forgotten Cold War-era terms return.

A photographer who documented Mariupol's Soviet-era iron- and steelworks shares insights into the factory set to hold a final showdown between Ukraine's Azov Battalion and Russian forces.

Will Russia's invasion of Ukraine end much the same way as the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan? The Polish historian and journalist Adam Michnik thinks so. He told RFE/RL that such a scenario could bring "changes" to Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Five days after the attack on the Moskva -- the largest warship to sink in 40 years -- the fate of the Russian crew is still shrouded in mystery, with officials keeping quiet as family members post that their sons and husbands are dead or missing.

Iran's parliament recently took steps to again allow foreign auto imports to meet high consumer demand amid concerns over the quality and safety of domestically made vehicles. But the measure was left out of the country's annual budget, stalling the initiative and leaving car buyers in limbo.

A homemade body bag in Ukraine's blue-and-yellow colors in Novgorod. A Ukrainian flag hanging on a balcony in Tomsk. Protesting the war in Russia could mean fines, jail, or prison. "The risks are…small compared to the chance to clear one's conscience at least a bit," one protester said.