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Kazakhstan's president, Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, has called for an early presidential election in the coming months in which he will seek a second term in office.

A court in Switzerland has fined three members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group for attempting to paint anti-war graffiti on the curb of a road in Bern.

Russia has begun large military drills in the country's east that involves forces from China -- a show of increasingly close defense ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the war in Ukraine.

Millions of people in China are suffering as the countrys worst heatwave in decades continues, drying up w...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who is known for ending the Cold War, dissolving the Soviet Union, and changing the map of Europe, died Tuesday, August 30. He was 91. We asked several Center experts for their thoughts on Gorbachev and his impacts – and how his life and actions are relevant to the challenges the world faces today.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91 - with President Biden leading tributes and calling him a man of remarkable vision who helped avert the prospect of nuclear war.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is dead at the age of 91.

Gorbachev was the Soviet Union's last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is dead at the age of 91.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms put an end to the nuclear arms race and the Cold War, has i died. He was 91. Deeply revered in t