You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one afternoon for the soft opening of the ...

The elegant 72-year-old Russian put her hand on her heart as the verdict fell. Five and a half years in prison for posts opposing the war in Ukraine. Then, according to a witness who saw her in the ...

Cradled in a steep valley, Borjomi is a mix of Russian Imperial architecture and Soviet tower blocks, and attracts those ...