CHISINAU, Moldova-- Moldovans got up to the news that the nation's referendum on joining the European Union was likely to go by a razor-thin margin after a significant day of ballot in Sunday's presidential election that is set to determine whether the nation pursues Western integration or pivots back toward Russia's orbit.Pre-election surveys had
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A group of coal miners in Siberia's Kemerovo region stated Monday that they were releasing a cravings strike after their employer stopped working to pay them millions of rubles in wages.At least 12 workerssigned a petition announcing the cravings strike that is anticipated to last till they get 46 million rubles ($478,000) in unsettled salaries, according to a regional
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The locked up mother of a prominent critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has actually been sent to the hospital to undergo medical treatment after her lawyer petitioned the authorities to enable her to get care due to her declining health.Zarema Musaeva, the mother of activist Abubakar Yangulbaev and the partner of a retired federal judge, is serving a
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A non-profit organization providing mental health and legal support services to LGBTQ+ people in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg announced Monday that it would shut down after coming under “anti-queer pressure.”

The organization, called Lupta, was created in April 2023 as a support center for people facing discrimination over their sexual

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When the yearly BRICS financial bloc summit opens Tuesday in Kazan, the capital of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, Moscow will be taking out all the stops to project the alliance as a rapidly broadening geopolitical counterweight to the West. President Vladimir Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov has already hailed the top as the largest foreign policy e
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Authorities in Moscow claimed Monday that the narrow margin in Moldova’s constitutional referendum on EU membership “raises questions,” while also rejecting Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s accusations of Russian interference in Sunday’s presidential election.

After nearly 99% of the votes were counted in a referendum that asked Moldovans whether to

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