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Portrait of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist, who is wearing a purple sweater.
Human rights
American journalist detained in Russia
Pussy Riot feminist activist collective, from left to right, Alina Petrova, Diana Burkot, Masha Alyokhina, Olga Borisova.
Protest
A conversation with Russian protest group Pussy Riot
gathering of schoolchildren
Ukraine
New Russian high school history textbook blames West for war in Ukraine
Cars queuing to cross the border into Kazakhstan at the Mariinsky border crossing, about (250 miles south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
Ukraine
Anti-war Russians who fled for safety now face deportation
man sits at a computer monitor
Ukraine
Young Russian game designers find a new home in Serbia
Tattoo artists tattooing their clients.
Ukraine
Ukrainians embrace tattoos as a form of patriotism
paintings on the wall
Russian artists in exile create new identity and work 
In this photo provided by The Federation Council of The Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation Press Service, lawmakers of Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation listen to the national anthem at a session in Moscow, Russi
LGBTQ
In Russia, a novel about a summer romance between two men sparks outrage
soliders with weapons
Military
Russian weapons shortage reduces supply going to India
Fans are seen on the stands during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Khimki and Rostov Rostov-on-Don, in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia.
Ukraine
Russia’s new Fan ID law seen as new form of authoritarian surveillance
Protesters wave a Georgian national and EU flags as they rally against a draft law
Foreign policy
Georgia faces a rocky road to EU membership
Vira Ustyanska, a 34-year-old artist, fled her home in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, soon after the war started. She now lives in San Diego, California, with a host family waiting for the war to end.
Ukraine
Finding home in California after fleeing war in Ukraine
A member of auction house staff poses for a picture with a 19-carat pink diamond at Christie's auction house, in London, Oct. 18, 2017.
Ukraine
Belgium faces pressure to support sanctions on Russian diamonds
billboard over building
LGBTQ
LGBTQ Russians are fleeing to Central Asia
Denmark's military officers stand next to a Leopard 2A7 tank at the Tapa Military Camp, in Estonia, Jan. 19, 2023.
Ukraine
Tanks for Ukraine are ‘ready to go’ when Germany and US strike a deal, retired Navy Adm. says
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko talk during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022.
Ukraine
Putin reinforces military, security bonds with Belarus at Minsk meeting
An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the Arctic Circle, Aug, 16, 2005. A new report finds permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever before.
Environment
Critical permafrost research in Russia disrupted by war in Ukraine
Historians come together to uncover disturbing aspects of Polish and Eastern European shared history.
Ukraine
War in Ukraine spurs new bonds between historians of shared Soviet past
A view of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine
Ukraine
‘I thought we were going to die’: A Ukrainian woman speaks out about her ordeal as a prisoner of war
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, an elderly man sits inside a bus in the station of Moscow, Russia. More and more migrants from the Central Asia are coming come to Moscow in search of work.
Ukraine
Russia’s war creates economic hardships for Central Asian migrants
A view of Almaty from Kok Tobe Park, a popular hilltop tourist attraction accessible by cable car.
Ukraine
Stuck without passports in Kazakhstan, Russians who avoided the draft face a ticking clock
headshot of man
Ukraine
Russian dissident remains in prison on trumped-up charges
Funeral workers burry a coffin with an unidentified civilian body, who died in Bucha during the Russian occupation period in February-March 2022, during a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine
Conflict & Justice
Digital clues and the stories Ukraine’s mass graves tell
man at podium
Conflict
The controversial Chechen leader who supports Putin in Ukraine
Russian opposition figure and former owner of the Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks during a press conference with Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs at the "Esperanza" hotel in Paunguriai village
Leaders
Russia must change its power structure to get back on a democratic path, opposition figure says
Firefighters and police officers work on a site where an explosion created a crater on the street after a Russian attack in Dnipro, Ukraine
Ukraine
Russia blasts Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities in deadly strikes
A view of the Big Kremlin Palace and Churches with the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia
Global Politics
Russian propaganda tries to convince youth that Russia is “always a victim of the West,” great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev says
A motorcyclists watches as an employee of a fuel stationin fills petrol, in Mumbai, India
Energy
India, China growing markets for shunned Russian oil
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban arrives for the an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders to discuss Ukraine, energy and food security in Brussels
Energy
Hungary’s Orban wins exemption in EU Russian oil embargo
Port cranes load a climate friendly LNG, liquefied natural gas, powered container ship at the import and export harbor in Hamburg, Germany
Energy
Europe’s new liquified gas infrastructure puts climate targets in question
A train passes by Republika Power Plant in town of Pernik, Bulgaria, April 21, 2022. The only nuclear power plant, generating over a third of Bulgaria’s electricity, runs on uranium from Russia.
Ukraine
EU proposes oil ban after bloc’s largest economy drops opposition
cargo crew in a line
Ukraine
Ukrainian seafarers stuck at US ports face tight restrictions, legal hurdles
A photographer takes pictures of the Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 km east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Energy
Saudi Arabia says it’s not responsible for high oil prices
Alina Yurkiv sits with Dmitry Korkin at his home in Westborough, Massachusetts, on March 16, 2022. Korkin, a computer science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is using his connections so that whenever Yurkiv's husband, an economist in Ukraine
On Course
Echoing WWII rescue efforts, ethnic Russian researchers in the US support Ukrainian scholars
Firefighters hose down a burning building after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022. Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another. Those moves are part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline even as Mosco
Ukraine
For many Syrians, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine feels painfully familiar
Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany
Energy
The invasion in Ukraine could mean less reliance on energy from Russia, analyst says
People protest in front of Ukraine’s embassy to Romania in Bucharest on Feb. 24, 2022.
Conflict & Justice
International law says Putin’s war against Ukraine is illegal. Does that matter?
Ukrainian servicemen walk by a deactivated Russian military multiple rocket launcher on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. Russian troops bore down on Ukraine's capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer to the gover
Ukraine
‘It was like a nightmare’: Russians react to news of Putin bombing Ukraine
Smoke rise from an air defense base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Ukraine
Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe ‘shattered’
Not far outside of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine near the border with Russi, Ukrainian military forces are preparing for the worst. There’s a long-barbed wire fence separating Ukraine and Russia. Some 50 yards back, there’s an intricate system of trenches.
Ukraine
Ukrainians living near the border with Russia weigh in on threat of war
On the outskirts of Kyiv in a forested area, between the capital and its international airport, something called “territorial defense training” is underway — where civilian volunteers learn how to be soldiers. The training is led by reservist officers.
Ukraine
How Kyiv residents are preparing for a possible war with Russia
Smoke rises from the city hall building during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Protest
What’s behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan
A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card
Top of The World
Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.
A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
Abdul Salam Hanafi, a deputy prime minister in the Taliban's interim government, left, speaks with acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Taliban official Amir Khan Muttaqi during talks involving Afghan representatives in Moscow, Russia
Top of The World
Russia hosts multinational talks on Afghanistan
People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage at a train station in Seoul, South Korea
Top of The World
North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile
People wearing masks stand in front of white bags of food aid
Conflict & Justice
Russia’s vote at UN could cut off humanitarian aid to northwest Syria
Wide shot of snowy barren land with a white car parked in the middle
Top of The World
Contentious Keystone XL pipeline project canceled
Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin is shown in a black and white portrait photograph wearing a space helmet with the visor open.
Science
It’s been 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space
Crimean Tatars speak after the prayer in a Mosque marking the Eid al-Adha, celebrated by Muslims worldwide, in Bakhchisarai, Crimea, on Sat. Oct. 4, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
7 years after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Indigenous Tatars still face persecution
A health care worker prepares a dose of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, at the Del Norte Hospital in El Alto, Bolivia, on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021.
COVID-19
Sputnik V vaccine is nearly 92% effective — a ‘political win for Putin’
In this file photo taken on Wed. June 24, 2020, Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missiles roll in Red Square during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in Moscow, Russia.
Nuclear
US and Russia extend key nuclear arms reduction treaty
A rocket is shown launching with the fire from boosters and smoke shown at the bottom with trees in the distance.
Top of The World
Biden seeks to extend US-Russia arms deal; Controversial tweet from Iran’s supreme leader; Honduras set for permanent abortion ban
US ex-Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, stands inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, March 11, 2020.
Global Politics
Ex-Marine’s Russian imprisonment is ‘political,’ his father says, calling for his release
A man wearing a white shirt speaks on a microphone while gesturing with his hands.
Alexei Navalny poisoned with Soviet-era Novichok, German officials confirm
Full Episode
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Full Episode
Former US Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, stands inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia July 30, 2020.
Trump’s stance toward Putin undermines diplomacy in ex-Marine’s case, says former Amb. McFaul
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Full Episode
Adam Schiff walks to a briefing.
Elections
Schiff warns Congress must be prepared for foreign interference in 2020 election
Russian state-owned television station RT logo is seen through a window with caution tape in front of a building
Media
Baltic ban on Kremlin-tied RT step toward dismantling ‘machinery of disinformation,’ says media expert