Muslims across Australia and around the world are commencing their Eid al-Fitr celebrations, marking the end of the holy ...

Russian leaders were intensely proud of having the largest tank fleet in the world for over fifty years. While the Red Army largely disintegrated in the early 1990s, the army sought to keep as many of ...

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” ...

Increasing tensions between Ramzan Kadyrov and the Kremlin are attracting media attention. The leader of Chechnya is secretly ...

Relations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov have soured in recent months, the ...

Gideon Rachman Hello and welcome to The Rachman Review. I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about Russia and Vladimir Putin. My guests ...

Some believe that they should erect stronger firewalls by refusing to join coalitions that include the far right to prevent ...

Police in ex-Soviet Moldova detained the leader of the country's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority at Chisinau's ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided ...

Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was forced to film an apology after rebuking military blogger Roman Alekhine live on ...