Was Vladimir Zhirinovsky calling for the restoration of the Russian monarchy, commenting on President Vladimir Putin’s enormous power and authoritarian rule, or just pulling another prank? …
continue readingPro-Stalin activists in Siberia plan to erect a bust of notorious Soviet security chief Lavrenty Beria next to a recently unveiled bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. …
continue readingTurkmenistan has opened an opulent new airport capable of handling 17 million passengers a year, even though a mere 100,000 people visit the country annually. …
continue readingThe U.S. House of Representatives has backed legislation that calls for supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry in its fight against Russia and separatists in the eastern Donbas region. …
continue readingAfter seeing news of Western food imports being crushed by bulldozers, a group of young St. Petersburg residents wanted to help stop edible food from being wasted. Now more than…
continue readingThe European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on September 22 that Russia must pay financial compensation to controversial “healer” Grigory Grabovoi. …
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin has given the country’s highest award to a police officer who was killed by militants after refusing to renounce his duties. …
continue readingGulbuddin Hekmatyar, a notorious warlord and wartime-era prime minister, has signed a peace deal with the Afghan government. The prospective return of the “Butcher of Kabul” has opened old wounds…
continue readingAfghanistan’s unity government, after months of tense negotiations, has signed a long-delayed draft peace agreement with the country’s second largest insurgent group, led by a fugitive warlord with a history…
continue readingRussian rights campaigner Svetlana Gannushkina has been named a co-winner of a Swedish human rights award sometimes referred to as the “alternative Nobel.” …
continue readingSyrian activists say rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo saw the heaviest air strikes in months overnight. …
continue readingThe second night of protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, sparked by the police shooting of an African-American man, Keith Lamont Scott. …
continue readingTwo Georgian politicians have brawled during a television debate ahead of general elections next month. …
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continue readingIs there support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that is not showing up in the polls? His campaign believes so. “We think there’s a big hidden Trump vote in…
continue readingBoth Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are raising less money in the tech sector nationwide than President Barack Obama four years ago. In Silicon Valley, a hub for technology and…
continue readingRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump is gaining in the latest polls against his Democratic party rival Hillary Clinton. Trump’s backers say he has even more support than polls suggest. That…
continue readingDuring election season, candidates try to raise money around the country to help them get elected. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are raising less money in the tech sector…
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continue readingDog lovers in China say they plan to join efforts to boycott the 2019 World Dog Show in Shanghai and endorse a global petition to say “No” to the city’s…
continue readingThe Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. …
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continue readingThe Hong Kong government on Wednesday failed in its bid to imprison three of the most prominent students at the center of the 79-day pro-democracy movement that paralyzed the territory’s…
continue readingThe Afghan government has signed a draft peace accord with notorious exiled warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for his return after years of fighting the central authorities. …
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