North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would "unconditionally support" Russia's war against Ukraine, state-run media ...

like Crimea or provinces Russia claims are culturally more Russian than Ukrainian. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley recently visited one of those, and she asked people living there what they think of the ...

Several Russian provinces have already begun to enact similar ... Last year, its population actually declined. Some 1.3 million people died. Only 1.26 million children were born to replace them.

Ukraine has a sizable minority of Russian speakers, largely in the east. They also overwhelmingly blame Russia for ...

More than 3.5 million people work in those factories ... and systemic disruptions sucked prosperity out of Russia’s provinces, said Laura Solanko, a Bank of Finland researcher.