Robert Coalson worked as a correspondent for RFE/RL from 2002 to 2024.
Ukraine's main oligarchs seem to be lining up in support of Kyiv's pro-European policy, seeing their political and economic interests in closer relations with Brussels.
Civic activist Yevgeny Roizman has won the race to become mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city. RFE/RL's takes a look at this colorful and highly controversial figure, who now enters the top ranks of Russia's political opposition.
According to exit polls and preliminary vote counts, opposition Moscow mayoral candidate Aleksei Navalny has polled far better than pundits were predicting as recently as a week ago.
As voting closes in Moscow's mayoral election, voter turnout is low -- at just 30 percent. RFE/RL senior correspondent Robert Coalson and RFE/RL Moscow correspondent Tom Balmforth take a look.
The Armenian president's decision to favor joining the Russian-led Customs Union at the expense of closer EU ties has raised questions about Moscow's regional ambitions.
Belarus's economy has been on the brink of collapse for years. Now the prospect of losing a lucrative export deal with Russia has Alyaksandr Lukashenka prepared to take a tough line with the Kremlin.
As the possibility of a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria looms larger, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's two main allies, Iran and Russia, are weighing potential responses.
Twentieth-century avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich is being honored by the official logo of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg next month. But Russian media are reporting that the artist's burial place outside Moscow has been paved over for the construction of elite apartments.
The U.S. National Archive has released the final portion of more than 3,700 hours of tape recordings made during the presidency of Richard Nixon. The release covers the summer of 1973 and includes an unscripted, one-on-one discussion between Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the White House.
The Podgorica Aluminum Plant is a key part of the Montenegrin economy. Now it is the object of a life-or-death struggle between the government and the company's Russian shareholders, who have announced they are filing a billion-dollar lawsuit for breach of contract.
How lives and expectations have changed in the five years since the Russia-Georgian war and since Moscow recognized the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
It has been five years since Russia reasserted its dominance in the South Caucasus. RFE/RL takes a look at how the region has changed in the wake of the conflict and where it may be headed.
Yerevan has just weeks to decide between proceeding with deeper relations with the EU or maintaining its traditional close ties with Russia. At this key moment, several strange moves by Moscow seem to be pushing Armenia to the West.
As Aleksei Navalny increasingly becomes the focus of anti-Kremlin opposition in Russia, many liberals who have led that opposition for a decade are raising concerns about his past support for Russian nationalist causes.
Overnight, prosecutors in the case of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny took the unprecedented step of asking the court to release him from custody pending his appeals. RFE/RL takes a look at the strange turns of events that led to Navalny's release.
Opposition politician Aleksei Navalny wasn't the only one in the dock in Kirov. Pyotr Ofitserov was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to embezzle with Navalny.
Opposition politician and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has been sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Kirov, just one day after being officially registered as a candidate for mayor of Moscow. What happens to Navalny now?
The fatal stabbing of a man in a southern Russian town has led to days of sometimes violent protests and calls for the eviction of ethnic Chechens. RFE/RL takes a look at the social tensions that this incident has exposed.
A spate of new laws and criminal investigations of intellectuals has many in Russia saying the Kremlin has adopted a frightening policy of "if you are not with us, you are against us."
In 2006, a 28-year-old banker was beaten and left to die following an argument in a bar with top Georgian Interior Ministry officials. That case -- and the alleged massive cover-up around it -- now threatens to overshadow President Mikheil Saakashvili's legacy.
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