It was only in the late 1980s and then into the 1990s, as Ukraine achieved independence, that Crimean Tatars were allowed to return. Tatars were among those who opposed Russia’s annexation of ...

When Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, many pitched annexation as if it was a desirable outcome for Crimea’s residents. After all, weren’t most of Crimea’s residents not only ethnically Russian but ...

MOSCOW − President Donald Trump said he has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the war in Ukraine, the New York Post reported, the first known direct conversation between ...

Most of the more than 30 dolphins killed in a Russian oil spill in the Kerch Strait were from the endangered Azov species.

Russia’s point man for relations with the United States said on Monday that all of President Vladimir Putin’s conditions must ...

Eight Ukrainian children seized from their families by officials in the Russia-annexed and controlled Crimea peninsula and placed in state orphanages returned home on Thursday, a senior Ukrainian ...

The tense encounter was captured on the approach to illegally annexed Crimea as the electronic surveillance aircraft gathered vital information about the Kremlin’s forces. Crewed by around 30 ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

The Baltic states are set to sever ties with Russia's power grid that date back to the 1950s, and instead integrate further ...

despite announcing the night before that a cleanup operation had been successfully completed off the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Russian authorities ...

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania transitioned from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, enhancing security amidst regional tensions. This significant shift increases Baltic energy independence ...