'Sputnik' Orbits A Russian City, Finding And Healing Tuberculosis
Russia is confronting one of its most serious public health threats since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Warn Olympic Games Will Harm Sochi
Russia is preparing for the 2014 Winter Games — turning a sleepy valley in the Northern Caucasus Mountains into an Olympic village, with brand-new facilities for every Alpine sport. Officials say it...
View ArticleThe Secret To Georgian Grilled Meats? Grapevines And Lots Of Wine
Tucked between Russia and Turkey, the Republic of Georgia is renowned for great food: cheese dishes, pickles, breads and stews. This is a cuisine that you should not miss.And on summer evenings in the...
View ArticleRussian Opposition Leader Convicted Amid Controversy
A Russian court has convicted one of the country's most prominent opposition leaders of embezzlement. Alexei Navalny faces a sentence of five years in prison in a controversial case that he says was...
View ArticleRussia Conducts Record Military Exercises
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Today, Russia is wrapping up its biggest military maneuver since the Soviet era, an exercise that's designed to test its military readiness on land, sea and in the air.
View ArticlePublic Opinion May Give Russia An Edge In Snowden Case
Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps insisting that he doesn't want the case of a fugitive American intelligence contractor to harm relations between Russia and the United States.But Edward Snowden...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Riot In Tblisi Tests Balance Between Church, State
While gay rights have been gaining ground in the West, they've been facing a strong backlash in many countries of the former Soviet Union.Russia recently passed a law that makes it a crime to give...
View ArticleMigrants Flock To Russia, But Receive A Cool Welcome
Russia's immigration issues would be familiar to Americans: Millions of impoverished migrants have come and found low-wage jobs. Some are in Russia illegally and are exploited by their employers. And a...
View ArticleFormer Soviet Republic's Democratic Transition Questioned
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It was five years ago that the U.S. was chastising Russia over its invasion of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Russian tanks had moved across the border after...
View ArticleLoser In Moscow Mayoral Election The One That's Made News
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.The mayor of Moscow is sometimes called the second most powerful official in Russia after President Vladimir...
View ArticleWhat's Driving Russia's Tactical Change On Syria?
For months, Russia has been playing a defensive game on Syria, blocking U.N.
View ArticleGreenpeace Vessel Is Boarded By Russian Coast Guard
Greenpeace reports that its vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, has been boarded by the Russian Coast Guard after a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Russian Arctic.The crew of the vessel tweeted...
View ArticleThe U.S. Has More Guns, But Russia Has More Murders
The U.S. and Russia have been taking lots of jabs at each other.Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized President Obama's plan for a military strike in Syria, and the Russian leader then denounced...
View ArticleForum Discusses Arctic Oil And Gas Searches
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On the first Monday of the rest of your life, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene. Climate change is melting...
View ArticleRussia Charges Greenpeace Activists With Piracy
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Russian prosecutors have filed charges of piracy against 14 people who were aboard a Greenpeace boat during a protest last month in the Russian Arctic. Under Russian...
View ArticleIn Russia's Vast Far East, Timber Thieves Thrive
Forests cover about half of Russia's land mass, an environmental resource that President Vladimir Putin calls "the powerful green lungs of the planet."But Putin himself acknowledges that Russia, the...
View Article'Just For Fun,' Lively Song And Dance In Kiev Metro Station
The best thing about traveling is that some experiences just crop up spontaneously.Take a recent Saturday evening in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.It's chilly, and people hurry past on their way to...
View Article100 Days To The Sochi Olympics: Some Key Things To Know
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, open in February, just 100 days from now.The games have already given rise to some superlatives: most expensive (at more than $50 billion), most heavily...
View ArticleUkraine, A Chocolate Factory And The Fate Of A Woman
It's been more than two decades since the former Soviet Union broke apart, and to the dismay of Russia, many of the 15 former Soviet republics have spun away from Moscow's orbit.Now Ukraine — with 46...
View ArticleOnce Victims Of Stalin, Ukraine's Tatars Reassert Themselves
In 1944, on the orders of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the entire population of Tatars on the Crimean Peninsula was rounded up and sent to the deserts of Soviet Central Asia.Nearly 70 years after...
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