It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

Ilir Rranci moved to a hamlet outside the Albanian city of Elbasan for the view of snow-capped peaks and a garden big enough ...

Ilir Rranci moved to a hamlet outside the Albanian city of Elbasan for the view of snow-capped peaks and a garden big enough ...

Summer is fast approaching, and if you're craving some of that Old World allure-you know, the fairytale castles, ...

The former San Sabba rice mill, in the northeast Italian port city of Trieste, resembles many other relics of past industry.

EUROPE'S DOOR 'OPEN' Rama supporters say he helped Albania shed its difficult communist-era past ... Rovers and shiny but often empty new apartment blocks in Tirana, they say.

For years, Americans drew a sharp line between foreign and domestic policy, with broad agreement on US aims abroad even when ...

You know, what might persuade him to try and to, you know, block that political opponent ... but I was certainly an anti-communist, and that put me in that camp for many years.

Applebaum: Presumably, the body that would be responsible for enforcing, you know, corruption laws against the president is ...

The tools of high tech surveillance are increasingly all around us: security cameras in public and embedded in doorbells, ...

The Church is not a humble institution. It is a transnational empire, second only to the Chinese Communist Party in ...