Elections in Bulgaria, Georgia and Moldova have all served as testing grounds for a Russia v. West contest for influence.

It was in service during Dostoevsky’s time in Wiesbaden Felix Schmitt for The New York Times Bad Homburg Bad Homburg, one of the wealthiest towns in Germany, has a 116-acre spa park with 19th-century ...

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to ...

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

For Europe's Jews, owning a grand country home wasn't just a symbol of wealth. It was a symbol of equality and the right to ...

The Kremlin complained on Wednesday about what it called "unacceptable" treatment of a team of Russian journalists who travelled to the United States to cover next week's presidential election.

Vladimir Putin has proclaimed the start of a new “world order” as his allies rushed to sign up to a Kremlin-led economic club ...

In a memoir released eight months after he died in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny never loses faith that his cause is worth suffering for while also acknowledging ...

Kremlin Says Moldova's Elections Were Not Free and Results Raise Questions MOSCOW (Reuters) -Moldova's elections were not free and the results showed a "hard-to-explain" increase of votes in ...

New details of the attack on Kremniy EL. On the night of October 18-19, drones attacked the Kremniy EL plant in the Russian city of Bryansk, considered one of the largest suppliers of microelectronics ...

Russian President Vladamir Putin has no health problems, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov after the Russian leader visited a hospital recently. Independent Latvia-based Russian ...

A day after the Kremlin assured Russians that Vladimir Putin was healthy despite multiple hospital examinations, he was seen repeatedly scratching his face on a trip outside Moscow. He had entered ...