NEWS OF POLITICS OF POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES
Image source, Adam KalininImage caption, Adam Kalinin has lived in the Russian wilderness for nearly four months to avoid being called up to fight in UkraineBy Ben TobiasBBC News When…
Image source, EPAImage caption, Remains of a damaged helicopter removed after this week's crash in Brovary in which three senior officials diedBy James WaterhouseBBC Ukraine correspondent Even by the standards…
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The Leopard tank is designed to compete with the Russian tanks being used in the invasion Ukraine's defence minister has said he had a "frank…
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, John Kirby presented images he said showed Russian railcars traveling between North Korea and RussiaBy Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, Washington The US will designate Russia's…
The southern Russian republic of Chechnya has long been a boiling point for conflict with Moscow in the restive North Caucasus. After a decade of unsuccessfully fighting for independence, the…
Dagestan, which translates as "land of the mountains", is situated in Russia's North Caucasus with Chechnya and Georgia to the west, Azerbaijan to the south and the Caspian Sea to…
Image source, Getty Images Television is the most powerful sector of the media industry and the main news source for most Russians, although its dominance is being eroded by the…
Image source, Nemes Tarimo/FacebookImage caption, Nemes Tarimo died fighting with the Wagner Group in Ukraine last October, his family has learntBy Alfred Lasteck & Munira HusseinBBC News, Dar es Salaam…
Image source, ReutersImage caption, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under pressure to allow Kyiv a supply of the Leopard 2 tank – pictured here last yearBy James FitzGeraldBBC News Dozens…
Image source, ReutersImage caption, The Wagner group's death's-head mural appeared on a wall in Belgrade signed by an extremist groupBy Guy DelauneyBBC News, Balkans correspondent A Russian news video claiming…