Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 in a Crimea that existed as part of an independent Ukraine. A Crimean Tatar, she is ...

Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. U.S. President Donald Trump's bargaining with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine by ...

Three years into Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, China is closely monitoring U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the war, as Beijing calculates its moves to position itself as a ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the seventh week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.