Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the second week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the phone with Arina Porkhal, a 15-year-old girl from the Donetsk in ...

Belarus, under dictator Alexander Lukashenko, continued to descend into totalitarianism, imprisoning people at will and ...

Fitch Ratings disclosed that the federal government's pursuit of orthodox economic policies ... had improved the prospects of the country's credit profile. In a report on the state of the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian ...

The pack of stray dogs -- thin and rain-soaked -- yelped in fear at the roar of incoming Russian artillery fire that echoed off abandoned Soviet-era buildings and an Orthodox church in frontline ...

The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his ... Kirillov, who took his post in 2017, was one of the highest profile figures to level those accusations. He held numerous ...

A bomb hidden in a scooter detonated, killing a senior military officer. Photos of the aftermath showed him face down in bloodstained snow.

He was the most senior Russian military officer to be assassinated inside Russia by Ukraine. Ukraine's SBU intelligence service, which accused Kirillov of being responsible for the use of ...

Ukraine carried out one of its most audacious operations on Russian soil early Tuesday, killing the commander of the unit designed to protect Russia’s troops from chemical, radiological and ...