Ulviyya Asadzade is a planning producer for RFE/RL.
Russia has launched a subsidized mortgage program for its citizens in occupied and Kyiv-controlled Ukrainian cities. Critics call it a political move aimed at normalizing control and pressuring Ukraine, while locals express outrage at the idea of their homes being sold.
Russian families continue to mourn young conscripts sent home in coffins, despite President Vladimir Putin’s initial pledge that only “professional military personnel” would fight in the Kremlin’s all-out war on Ukraine.
A single holding company controls nearly every aspect of Azerbaijan's airline industry and operates its own bank to boot. One of the bank's owners? President Ilham Aliyev's 21-year-old daughter.
