M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The New York Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How ...

As Ukraine and Russia edge closer to peace talks, neither side seem willing to compromise on the sovereignty of the occupied ...

Now we know that in 2015, it tried to do something similar in Moldova, but the Ukrainians did not allow it to reach Transnistria then ... but with only one city: Moscow. The rest of the territory ...

Transnistria, an unrecognized breakaway region between Moldova and Ukraine, operates autonomously with its own government, currency, and military. Despite its political ambiguity, it maintains its ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away ...

The Russian-backed region of Transnistria has returned three million cubic metres of gas to Moldova, which had been borrowed to keep the region's gas system operational. Source: Moldovan news outlet ...

A widely-used online Ukrainian battlefield map appeared to show Ukrainian forces no longer in control of the town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region on Wednesday.

On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the south of Denmark, a massive engineering marvel is taking shape — piece by giant ...