Carl Schreck

Navalny was like a Bizarro Putin: tall, gregarious, freewheeling, and completely at ease speaking off the cuff. I ended up publishing pieces in two separate publications based on that interview -- a "double-dip" in freelance-journalist parlance -- and I recall telling one of my old colleagues at The Moscow Times afterward, "That dude could be president at some point."

During Russian President Vladimir Putin's 24-year reign, he has repeatedly waited days to make public statements during tragedies and terrorist acts like the March 22 concert hall attack in Moscow.

A shadowy Uzbek firm with ties to the president's family has scrambled to reanimate its dormant website after a recent revealed it had secured more than $100 million in secretive state gas deals despite having a virtually imperceptible public business footprint.

A Russian woman who described U.S. soldier Gordon Black as her "husband" posted numerous videos of the couple together in South Korea, giving a glimpse of their relationship before he became the latest American citizen arrested by Russian authorities.

After mob violence targeting foreign students engulfed Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Pakistani students told RFE/RL how the angry crowds broke into dormitories to attack them.

Russia, the United States, and several other countries have undertaken the largest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War, with 16 people -- including RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan -- being released from Russian prisons after being convicted on charges all three vehemently denied, while eight Russians will return home.

A multination prisoner swap between Washington and Moscow freed three U.S. citizens and Russian opposition activists from Russia. But several other Americans and hundreds of other Russians deemed political prisoners remain incarcerated there.

Records obtained by RFE/RL show that the UN’s watchdog for peaceful nuclear energy sponsored studies by Russian research institutes in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow seized in 2014, in what Kyiv calls a violation of its sovereignty.

Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria, images emerged of jubilation and chaos, including toppled statues and the sacking of government buildings.

An RFE/RL investigation reveals that an influential X account called Europe Invasion concocted fake personas to push xenophobic narratives and fuel anti-immigrant sentiment in the EU.