History

Analysts: Russia Comes Out On Top In Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Between Armenia, Azerbaijan

Georgia: Monastery Melee Overshadows Parliamentary Election

'Never Any Conflict': Georgia's Village Of Peace For Ethnic Armenians, Azerbaijanis

Unlike in nearby Armenia and Azerbaijan, ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the Georgian village of Khojorni have long lived together in peace. That history is part of the reason why Georgia, which contains several such villages, has offered to mediate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Nagorno-Karabakh Photogallery: No Progress Toward Peace

Belarus: No Maidan In The Making, Observers Say

Russia's 'Atlantis' Rises From Reservoir

After being flooded for decades, the Russian town of Mologa is reemerging from the waters of a hydroelectric dam's reservoir.

Critics See Effort To Rewrite Soviet History Behind Historian's Sexual-Assault Conviction

Dodging Doping In Moscow's 1980 Summer Olympics

After 25 Years, Budyonnovsk Hostage Crisis Seen As Horrific Harbinger Of Terror

Chechen militants led by Shamil Basayev on June 14, 1995, took about 1,500 hostages in the southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk and seized a hospital. More than 100 died in the course of the five-day drama, many after failed attempts by Russian forces to free the hostages. It came just months after Russian forces launched the First Chechen War in December 1994.

'I Went There To Die': Hostage Breaks 25-Year Silence On Budyonnovsk Siege

A woman held hostage by Chechen separatists has spoken about it on camera for the first time, 25 years after a five-day siege that left some 150 people dead in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk.

Life In Osh, 10 Years After Kyrgyzstan's Deadly Ethnic Conflict​

A decade has passed since ethnic violence tore through towns and cities in southern Kyrgyzstan, killing 470 people according to an international report. RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service and Current Time talked with ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz people in Osh, the city where the violence started, to get a sense of how people feel about life today and about the events of June 2010.