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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked a surge of refugees fleeing the war zone, but political repression and economic uncertainty have also prompted emigration from Russia itself. Among the emigrants are Russian Jews, 16,000 of whom have left for Israel in the nearly six months since the war’s…

The U.S. and Russia are trying to work out a prisoner exchange that involves basketball star Brittney Griner. While they've done deals for decades, the trading usually involves spies for spies.

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice.

The town of Chernivtsi, once the wedding dress capital of the Soviet Union, is still churning out dresses — for the West. "We are staying in Ukraine," says a dressmaker. "We will build our economy."

 A captured Russian 2S9 Nona self-propelled artillery gun fired on unseen Russian positions while camouflaged in a forested area.

A summer camp in Poland's capital has brought Jewish volunteers originally from Russia or other parts of the former Soviet Union to mentor Ukrainian refugee children

The erstwhile Soviet Union were the undisputed king of world chess till the bloc broke up in the late 1980s. But countries like Ukraine and Armenia - which were parts of the Soviet bloc - had a rich chess tradition and it showed in their results in Olympiads. While Ukraine…

Amid growing tensions with the West, Russia announces it is leaving the International Space Station. So, what does that mean for the future of the ISS?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Congo Republic on Monday, the second leg of an African tour aimed at strengthening Moscow's ties with a continent that has refused to join Western condemnation and sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. African countries, which have a tangled legacy of relations with…