A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of ...

In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his path-breaking book The Great ...

The Taliban may allow Washington to take control of Bagram air base. In return, the US may help end the Taliban’s diplomatic ...

A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine. Lucy Fielder has ...

As new flights connect western Europe and Tbilisi, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent explores the wide-open spaces of the little-visited Javakheti plateau ...

Shocking footage shows officers rounding up gym-goers at Spirit Fitness, in south-east Moscow , before ordering them to drop ...

Sofi Oksanen draws on her family’s history of Soviet colonisation and reports of the war in Ukraine to argue Russia uses violence against women as a weapon of war.

Have you ever suffered from museum blindness? A complete overwhelm at the sheer amount of stuff – often quite similar stuff – ...

This year’s colorful and wide-ranging edition of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair is a bursting ...

In early 2024, after being fined 30,000 roubles ($370) for posting about Ukraine online, Kozyreva was expelled from the ...