CIS Countries

By David Chkhikvishvili TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgian police on Friday arrested ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia after the opposition politician returned...

By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian government to look at curtailing spending from the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgian law enforcement officers have detained former president and opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili inside Georgia, TASS news...

KYIV (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that hundreds of people had been detained following a shooting...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Russia said in a joint statement on Thursday that they had held "intensive and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia urged Tajikistan and Afghanistan to resolve any dispute in a mutually acceptable manner, saying it had heard...

By Anton Zverev and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) -The editor of a Russian news outlet that angered the Kremlin with...

KYIV (Reuters) - Belarusian KGB officers have detained 50 people on charges of insulting a government official or inciting social...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's former Imperial capital is set to play host to the wedding of a descendant of the...

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) - A man shot dead by Belarusian security forces in a raid on an apartment...

By Natalia Zinets and Matthias Williams (Reuters) -Belarusian security forces shot dead a 31-year-old man, identified by the pro-democracy opposition...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday declared the OVD-Info protest monitoring group that played a major role in documenting anti-Kremlin...

PARIS (Reuters) - France warned Mali on Thursday that it would lose the support of the international community if it...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's government on Wednesday approved a series of measures aimed at restoring control over Crimea, including offering...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday that Turkey is shielded from...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will tighten visa rules for Belarusian state officials, Europe's migration commissioner...

By Andrew Osborn and Polina Devitt MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia sharply escalated a campaign against jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will end his period of coronavirus-related self-isolation later on Wednesday when he meets...

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday he would request the extension of a state of emergency along...

MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called on Tuesday for changes to the constitution that would prevent an opposition...