IVAN NECHEPURENKO

There is little doubt about the outcome, should he run, but the election in March carries more significance as the first one since the invasion...

Jamala, the song contest’s 2016 champion, had been a prominent advocate for Crimea’s Tatar population. The region was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.

The lawyer of Sergei G. Khadzhikurbanov, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping to organize the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, said he...

Alsu Kurmasheva, who holds dual U.S.-Russian citizenship and works in Prague, was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent after going to Russia...

Attorneys for the jailed opposition leader, Aleksei A. Navalny, had been helping him maintain a significant public presence, even from prison.

The announcement, formally ending more than 30 years of separatist rule, came after Azerbaijan regained control of the breakaway enclave in a swift attack a...

The blast occurred as ethnic Armenians were fleeing the breakaway region that had returned to the control of Azerbaijan.

Nearly 400 people crossed the border from the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, days after a military offensive returned the ethnic Armenian enclave to...

With food shortages and blackouts, rumors of revenge-taking abound — and are flatly denied by the Azerbaijani authorities.

Officials of the breakaway region met with representatives of Azerbaijan to talk about the future of its residents, many of whom strongly resist the idea...