Robert Coalson worked as a correspondent for RFE/RL from 2002 to 2024.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, it turns out, is something of a poet.
Leaked e-mails reveal close links between leading figures in the new Greek government and people close to anti-Western Russian idealogue Aleksandr Dugin, as well as to sanctioned Russian billionaire Konstantin Malofeyev.
As relations between Minsk and Moscow are strained by Russia’s policies in Ukraine, is President Alyaksandr Lukashenka looking to bolster ties with the European Union?
Can tens of billions of dollars in Western aid jumpstart Ukraine's embattled economy or does Kyiv need the current crisis as a stimulus to implement reforms that it has avoided for the past two decades?
Russia's culture minister has criticized the film Leviathan as not very Russian, saying that it lacks positive heroes and has too much "existential gloom." Imagine what advice he'd have for the creators of some of Russia's world-renowned classics.
Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova -- a prominent contributor to RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service -- has been in custody in Baku for more than one month. Despite a mounting international outcry, there is no end in sight for her ordeal.
A low-level, but frightening bombing campaign is being waged across Ukraine, with the cities of Odesa and Kharkiv particularly in the crosshairs. Dozens of explosions are testing the abilities and will of the state and the resilience of the Ukrainian people.
Russia's offering at this year's Oscars competition is a dark film about an everyman's hopeless and pathetic struggle against an arbitrary, all-powerful, uncaring state. Some observers find that surprising.
The Ukraine crisis in 2014 brought Vladimir Putin's Russia to loggerheads with the West. With so many of Russia's gambles still up in the air, 2015 could be a year of reckoning.
Russian government assaults on national media like Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd TV have gotten a lot of coverage. But the imminent closure of one of the country's premier regional television stations is getting less attention.
The parties of Moldova's pro-Western ruling coalition have won enough seats in the new parliament to form another government. But the slim margin of victory has left the forces arguing for closer ties with Russia in a strong enough position to take advantage of any misstep.
On November 30, voters will weigh in on the European-integration path Moldova has followed actively since 2009. But the country is deeply divided, and forces supporting closer relations with Moscow and the Russia-led customs union are making themselves heard.
With new convoys of heavy military equipment arriving in separatist-held eastern Ukraine from Russia and a significant uptick in fighting, the Minsk conflict-resolution process in Ukraine seems stymied. Has the conflict entered a new, more dangerous phase?
The European Union says it sees no conflict of interest in the fact that a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini is married to a prominent Gazprom lobbyist.
The infamous Russian March, an annual parade of nationalist groups from hard-line Stalinists to genuine fascists, will go ahead on November 4. But the country's self-proclaimed "biggest nationalist," Vladimir Putin isn't entirely thrilled about it.
The separatist regions of eastern Ukraine will hold widely unrecognized elections on November 2 in a move analysts say threatens to undermine the September Minsk agreement on regulating the Ukraine crisis.
In 1989, Hungary was a trendsetter leading the wave of democratic revolutions that swept Eastern Europe. A quarter century later, it is distinguishing itself again -- in a way that makes democrats increasingly nervous.
As Ukrainians go to the polls on October 26, a new, pro-European consensus seems to be forming, as even ethnic-Russian Ukrainians look skeptically at Vladimir Putin's Russia.
A Siberian museum of political repression is hosting a unique exhibition of letters from prisoners in the Soviet Gulag. In many cases, these letters are the last traces these men left on Earth.
Two young Crimean Tatar men were hustled off in a van late one evening last week. Activists say the abductions are just part of a wave of repression against Crimean Tatars for opposing Russia's annexation of the region in March.
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