Charles Maynes
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Moldova voted in favor of adding a path to the European Union to its constitution, and gave the incumbent president the most votes in elections Sunday, but neither result was the win leaders wanted.
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It's crunch time for Moldova, the tiny country balancing between EU member countries and Russia, as presidential election and referendum results come in.
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A single father was sentenced to prison after his then 12-year-old daughter was caught with drawings critical of Russia’s war in Ukraine at her local school. He has been freed after nearly two years.
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Russian President Putin insists his country is united behind the war effort in Ukraine. Many Russian polls confirm it, but the findings of an independent study present a more complicated picture.
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A Russian court convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage Friday, sentencing him to 16 years in a Russian prison colony in a trial the U.S. denounced as a sham.
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A Moscow court ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a hearing that was conducted in absentia as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Moscow for a two-day visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The espionage trial for Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent, has begun in Russia’s Ural mountain capital of Yekaterinburg — the same city where he was detained 15 months ago.
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Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan continues to mourn loved ones and hold funerals for the dead, as questions and conspiracy theories swirl over the weekend attack that killed 20 people.