Rustam Zarifulin News Today

Pope Francis will become the first pontiff to visit Mongolia, a trip that will be steeped in geopolitical significance as Russia and China watch closely.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is silently watching raucous infighting that has emerged among top members of his entourage amid the war in Ukraine.

Help has been slow in coming to Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in Ukraine that was inundated after a catastrophic dam collapse earlier this week.

The Russian government monitors social media accounts and uses surveillance cameras on activists in order to quash dissent and enforce its rule.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits one of his country's staunchest allies, Britain, which promises more weapons to try to beat back Russia.

Kyrgyzstan citizens working in Russia are being drafted into its military. Some flee back home to avoid the Ukraine war. Others return in body bags.

Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appeared in a Moscow court to appeal his detention on spying charges, which he and the U.S. deny.

Sardarbek Mamatillaev was happy when he was granted Russian citizenship in 2021. But the 24-year-old from Kyrgyzstan did not expect to receive a call to arms a few months later.

Many conscript-age Kyrgyz men who received Russian passports in recent years are being called on to join Russian forces in Ukraine. Meanwhile, several Kyrgyz nationals have volunteered to fight in Ukraine, some as contractors and others hoping for a fast track to Russian citizenship. 

A 16-meter-high bronze monument to Taras Shevchenko, a national hero in Ukraine, survived...