I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two issues: The EU finally targeting Russian ...

At the request of Russia's Education Ministry, teacher Pavel Talankin helped film pro-war propaganda efforts at an elementary school. But ministry officials did not suspect he would turn his videos ...

The shocking death of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister – and son of its founding father -- just after the 1948 Communist ...

Nearly three years into Russia’s all-out onslaught on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Russians remain outside the country, ...

Since 2018, the notorious Russian mercenary company formerly known as Wagner has overseen security for top officials in the ...

A Russian musician who opposed the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine plunged to his death from his 10th-story apartment during a ...

A Russian drone attack struck a residential neighborhood in the city of Sumy in the northeastern Ukrainian region that borders Russia. Emergency crews rushed to extinguish fires that destroyed around ...

At the peak of his running career, Marat Zhylanbaev completed 30 marathons in 15 days and ran across deserts on several continents. But when he turned his energy toward joining the political ...

The Russian military wants to make it harder for conscripts to secure medical exemptions from military service, including ...

This week's Farda Briefing looks into U.S. President Donald Trump’s seemingly reluctant return to his "maximum pressure" ...

The U.S. is shutting down a special unit focusing on seizing Russian oligarchs' assets. What does that mean for those trying ...

Russian armed forces have doubled down on the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war, a UN monitoring mission in Ukraine has ...