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Crimean Tatars, deported en masse by Josef Stalin in 1944 and subjected to Russian occupation 70 years later, have no ...

The real estate developer Steve Witkoff, whom President Trump made his plenipotentiary in foreign conflicts, is either ...

On March 19, 2025, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest hosted the high-level “Black Sea Forum: Frontier of the Future ...

The holy month of Ramadan ends this coming weekend. It’s a month when many Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from just before sunrise to sunset. Most Muslims in Ukraine are Crimean Tatars, ...

Despite laws banning discriminatory hiring practices, Russian state entities are advertising jobs with the requirement that ...

Since Russia’s occupation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014, Ukrainian journalists have faced intimidation and violence.

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

In China, Islamic culture has thrived and woven itself into the rich tapestry of Chinese society for over 1,300 years since ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...