Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Russia, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Indeed, many other reports have come in about such persecution. The authorities ...

As of this morning Russian forces control the Crimean peninsula, home to some 2 million people, the vast majority of whom are ethnically Russian. On the phone with President Obama yesterday, Putin ...

When Shevket Osmanov moved to his family homeland in 1987 after spending all his life in Uzbekistan, the welcome he received was less than effusive. “People were terrified of us,” says Osmanov, who ...