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Baku announced -- then partly walked back -- steps to remove what it calls "fictitious traces” of Armenian heritage from churches now under Azerbaijani control in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Archival images show what some of those inscriptions and artworks look like.

A fresh round of diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions over Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine kicks off on February 7, with French President Emmanuel Macron meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heading to the United States.

A top Russian diplomat says nuclear arms controls talks between Moscow and Washington will be largely guided by negotiations on security demands the Kremlin laid out in December amid an ongoing crisis with neighboring Ukraine.

In a distant village surrounded on three sides by Russian territory, the remaining residents say they have more important things on their minds than the threat of a new military offensive: How about you fix the school bus? Or reopen the post office?

Hundreds of residents of Kazakhstan’s restive town of Zhanaozen have rallied for several days to demand jobs after deadly anti-government protests that shook the country last month

Did they pass these laws in order not to use them?" one journalist asked rhetorically about the Russian government's latest bid to force media to take down stories connected to oppositionist Aleksei Navalny.

A court in Russia's Far East has sentenced a local pensioner to 12 years in prison on a high treason charge, which he denies.

Speaking at meeting, Palestinian president calls for ‘expanding scope of peaceful popular resistance’ against Israeli occupation.

A Chechen rights lawyer, who along with his family members has been threatened to be killed by Chechen leaders, has left Georgia fearing for his safety in the Caucasus country.

A Russian teacher says she was forced to quit her job at a school in the city of St. Petersburg after she read poems to her class by two authors who had been persecuted during Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's purge in the 1930s and 1940s.