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Burkina Faso coup supporters were seen waving Russian flags and asking for the country to swap allegiances from France to Moscow. While the level of pro-Russian sentiment in Burkina Faso is unclear, many are dissatisfied with French efforts to assist in the fight against militant groups
As the possibility of a Russian invasion continues to loom, Ukraine’s leaders have been seeking to assuage the population’s fears. Ukrainians have been trading war-preparation advice on social media channels. Life goes on as usual on the streets of Kyiv, the capital, and many people are hesitant to discuss the tensions openly
During World War II, their parents and grandparents were deported from the Soviet Union and resettled in rural districts of Russia because Soviet officials viewed them as potential traitors. They wish to return to the places where their families were exiled as retirees
Kazakhstan’s political turmoil erupted at precisely the moment the U.S. and Russia began to negotiate deep disagreements over Ukraine, NATO and European security. The deployment of 2,500 “peacekeepers” by the Kremlin-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) struck many Washington experts as a shift in Kazakhstan’s foreign policy that strengthens Russia’s hand
According to the leader of a team that monitors Arabic and Kurdish social media, human traffickers are proposing trips to Russia as a new path for migrants to the European Union. There was “enthusiasm” online about the availability of a mechanism “to avoid the limits” on the Polish-Belarusian border
Parts of the world that were long assumed to be permanently frozen are melting, posing problems for countries like Russia, which has extensive swaths of permafrost
Anna Politkovskaya, a relentless investigative reporter who uncovered the brutality of Russia’s war in Chechnya and showed how President Vladimir Putin was curbing democracy in Russia, was assassinated 15 years ago. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who was one of the subjects of her human rights reporting, is still in power, and claims of his complicity in murder and torture have persisted
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wants to deepen his ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to ease his government’s international isolation, which has resulted from a harsh crackdown on political opponents
Russia is gearing up for parliamentary and local elections on Sunday, which the opposition claims will be held in a climate of repression, with a handful of non-aligned candidates barred from running
Russia’s parliamentary elections next week are set to be some of the least competitive in years after a number of independent and opposition candidates were barred from running