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Set back from a stretch of isolated beach on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria and nestled among trees lies the sprawling Kamchia Sanitary…
Moldova's energy minister says the government will propose that Moldovagaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom, pay the Russian gas giant $8.6 million to settle a debt…
It's been 10 years since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese leader Xi Jinping's signature foreign-policy venture that has seen hundreds of billions of…
After an eventful summit in Vilnius in July, NATO will return in the next few months to "bread and butter" issues. That means various military…
The European Commission is facing tricky decisions in the coming weeks over the influx of Ukrainian agricultural products into the European Union. September 15 marks…
Speakers at a conference dedicated to Central Asia this week struggled to find good things to say about the region -- or at least enough…
The BRICS bloc, a group of developing countries seen as seeking to counter the United States and the West, agreed at a summit last week…
A top UN official expressed concerns that Afghanistan has been excluded from global discussions on climate change, despite being among the top 10 countries worldwide…
For sanctions advocates in the West, the steep slide in the value of the ruble this year is a clear sign that the economic penalties…
In the heart of the Russia’s coal-mining Kemerovo region, residents struggle with the harsh economic realities of declining wages, obsolete mine facilities, and chronic medical…
On August 29-31, first the EU's defense ministers and then the bloc's foreign ministers will meet in the Spanish city of Toledo for informal talks.…
The video recorded on a Kazakh farmer's smartphone reached the Internet like a distress signal. "Zhambyl Province. Sugar beet. There is no water. The beet…
On August 18, 1976, a 4-meter-high spacecraft called the Luna-24 touched down on the Mare Crisium, a flat plain in the moon’s northern hemisphere. Four…
Bakytbek Ysmanov, a 64-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan, has been working in Russia for 15 years. In the past 12 months he has watched the ruble…
??A senior UN official told the United Nations Security Council on August 16 that the delivery of humanitarian relief to Nagorno-Karabakh by the International Committee…
Before heading off on their summer break, the ambassadors of the 27 EU member states agreed to review some of the individual sanctions on the…
In the 20 years that Data Gabelia has worked at the Hotel Anaklia, he's seen the fortunes of the Black Sea resort town of 1,500…
The fate of the massive nuclear power plant in the crosshairs of Europe's largest war in decades has made for worrisome headlines since Russia launched…
When the European Union officially imposed another round of restrictive measures on Belarus on August 3, it put an end to one of the longest-running…
After a series of coups swept across Africa’s impoverished Sahel states over the past three years, leading to a larger Russian military presence, U.S. Secretary…