Back then, no one thought that war would turn out to be only the first — the Second Chechen War began in August 1999. And both key participants in the Khasavyurt Accords did not live to see its end

More than 30 years after the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbian nationalists in Srebrenica, the world is once again remembering those nightmare events — this week, their chief organizer died

Beloozersk — one of the oldest cities of the Russian North — attracts tourists from all over the European part of Russia. But you can get there only by car or bus. After the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on Russian oil refineries, gasoline in Beloozersk first disappeared and then became more than twice as expensive

Elections in Central Asia can be compared to the culture of local weddings — events as beautiful as they are costly for practically all their participants. But that is only partly a joke. We explain why the new parliamentary elections matter for the key country in the region