This plan would result in one of the most famous flying units of World War II – the Night Witches. Trump asks federal agencies to make RTO plans for workers living more than 50 miles from an ...

RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

Russian ice skating coaches Shishkova and Naumov among scores feared dead after midair collision between airliner and military helicopter 'Apart from anything else they were my children ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, according to Russian state news. By ...

The ‘Bucha Witches’, Ukraine’s first all-women air defense unit tasked with gunning down Russian drones, is formed of women, most of whom have suffered deep personal losses in the Russia ...

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

One big difference of course is that people in positions of influence listened (at first, anyway) to Kennan, but dismissed Merry—and with predictably disastrous results for the U.S.-Russia ...

Satellite imagery shows clear indications that Russia’s anticipated withdrawal of forces from its Tartus naval base in Syria has finally started. Complete loss of access to the facility, where Russian ...