Jeffrey Tayler

A remote archipelago is one of Russia’s holiest places—and its most haunted.

A Moscow apartment block’s tenants turn over, one vodka binge at a time.

Europe’s poorest country is a paragon of financial stability

Russia's president has launched a blog—comments included. Now citizens of this notoriously repressive country are offering him everything from policy advice to Alice Cooper concert tickets

Much more than just a disagreement over prices is pushing Moscow to take a hard line in its gas dispute with Kiev

After 17 years in the NHL, Czech hockey star Jaromir Jagr hits the ice—and the jackpot—in Siberia.

It will take more than Obama's electoral triumph to improve the United States' strained relations with Russia

Why France’s religious strife melts away in Marseille

Washington should establish a new framework, based partly on an old paradigm, for its relations with Moscow

Facing a resurgent Moscow, Ukraine is clamoring for NATO membership. The alliance should say no

"The pitiable David-and-Goliath asymmetry of Georgia's dustup with Russia has obscured both the United States' culpability in bringing about the conflict, and the nature of the separatism that caused it in the first place"

Why Vladimir Putin’s successful effort to handpick his replacement may backfire

Where to stay, where to eat, and what to do in Kunming

Laid-back and beautiful, Kunming is China’s “City of Eternal Spring.”

The Golden Ring, northeast of Moscow, offers a respite from the capital and an immersion in the past

Nigeria's president and onetime hope for a stable future is leading his country toward implosion—and possible U.S. military intervention

Away from the heat and bustle of Morocco’s historic cities lie some of the friendliest and most tranquil places in North Africa

How the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov hopes to unseat President Vladimir Putin