Moscow's Afghan community centers around a cluster of gray tower blocks that make up the Soviet-era Sevastopol Hotel

Russia's style gurus have turned to the motherland for inspiration at the capital's fashion weeks, celebrating ethnicities and returning to a pre-Soviet...

Georgian moviemakers are banking on European partners, international stars such as Mexico's Gael Garcia Bernal and their rich landscape to rebuild a film...

Russia has one of the world's biggest heroin problems, with up to 3 million addicts according to local nongovernmental organizations. The addiction kills...

A masked guard clad in camouflage pokes his AK-47 assault rifle into the shoulder of a vodka-guzzling client in a hotel bar in Russia's Muslim Ingushetia...

Neiba scrapes out a meager income selling soil-caked clumps of wild garlic she picks in the forests of the country's poorest province — an occupation...

Chubby-cheeked, hard-working and joyous but also ready for military action is how North Korea presents its people at a major show of official art from...

The Russian capital has fabulous art, a slew of Soviet-era gems, exotic cuisine from the Caucasus and Central Asia, and simple pleasures rare in the West...

The Russian Orthodox Church refused to rehabilitate him and the state chose to ignore him, but the official silence surrounding the 100th anniversary of...

Angelina Jolie whipped up Soviet-era nostalgia and patriotism for Mother Russia at the Moscow premiere of her spy thriller “Salt.” “I think this...