Russia is open to normalizing relations with Georgia but sees no prerequisites for resuming political dialogue as long as Tbilisi ties the restoration of diplomatic relations to Moscow’s withdrawal of ...

The so-called state security committee of Russian-occupied South Ossetia, in coordination with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the region’s so-called foreign intelligence service, has ...

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) parliamentary assembly on Wednesday called for Russia’s immediate and unconditional withdrawal from the occupied Georgian territories ...

(RNS) — Bishop Isaiah is the unlikely founder of a successful animation film festival that takes place every September in a rural community. (RNS) — Early in the afternoon on the first day of ...

Two Russian murderers who were conscripted as soldiers for the Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine have been accused of new killings after being released. Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said ...

Wagner soldiers returning to Russia following their brief service in Ukraine have terrorized their hometown communities, according to reports. "The state and personally Putin and Prigozhin are to ...

Troops sent into Ukraine to back up Russian forces say they had no choice but to leave because Russian military was in shambles and “they deceived us at every step.” Soldiers from the breakaway state ...

When Andrei Bakayev, a 35-year-old soldier from South Ossetia, was killed in Ukraine, he was given a funeral with full military honors back home. Bakayev was “an Ossetian and Russian, a real defender, ...

Ukraine, Europe’s second-largest country with a population of 44 million, is battling Russia in what intelligence communities have said would be the biggest war in Europe since 1945. One man who ...

Russia’s malign actions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova—and the inability of the transatlantic community to push back—has given Moscow a de facto veto on any future NATO membership. Simply out, ...

A small, savage conflict that started three three decades ago in the Caucasus Mountains still has daily consequences for ethnic Georgians and Ossetians. 1 A woman sits in her apartment, which was ...

South Ossetia’s de facto authorities have reintroduced the name ‘Stalinir’ for their capital city for symbolic use during World War II commemorations, as taboos on honoring the dictator continue to ...