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Retired U.S. Army Major John Spencer, chairman of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy Forum and author of Connected Soldiers, explains how Russia is remaking its objectives on the ground and why some of the most brutal fighting may be yet to come.

Russian travel agencies are offering "debit-card tours" to Uzbekistan with the primary aim of obtaining Mastercard and VISA cards from Uzbek banks to get around Western sanctions due to Moscow's war in Ukraine that included the U.S. card giants suspending operations in Russia.

Ahead of crucial elections on April 3, the independent online TV channel Partizan has taken to the road, hoping to stoke debate and challenge political entrenchment across Hungary. But in a media environment dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, is anyone listening?

Xi Jinping’s decision to partner up with Vladimir Putin just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could undercut the EU’s willingness to work with China -- a point that Brussels will hammer home at an April 1 virtual meeting.

A schoolteacher. A TV news editor. A performance artist. National guardsmen. These are some of the Russians who are protesting the war in Ukraine -- or refusing to fight in it.

A distant, more glamorous cousin to traditional ballroom dancing, the modern ballroom and vogue scenes are exploding in Hungary. For the country's under-pressure LGBT community, it has been a home away from home.

Andriy, 15, watched his mother die on a road after their car hit a land mine near the hard-hit city of Chernihiv. She is one of thousands of people killed in Russia's unprovoked invasion -- and he is one of countless scarred survivors.

The widow of a man killed in the bloody January uprising in Kazakhstan says officials have put pressure on her in an apparent bid to get testimony for the government's version of events.

In the weeks since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russia state TV broadcasts have been a blur of unsubstantiated, often wildly false claims about the war and the actions of Kyiv and the West. Here’s a sampling.

Dozens of people who celebrated Norouz in Iran's Kurdistan Province have been detained. Rights groups say the measures are an example of how the authorities are restricting the cultural rights of ethnic minorities in the Islamic republic.