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As Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, expectations were low for Ukraine's president. But Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confounded both his allies and his enemies with his performance.

The largest Catholic congregation in the U.S. is now in California's Central Valley. It serves more than 14,000 families. Its size correlates with the dramatically falling number of Catholic priests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held his annual call-in show in which he takes dozens of questions from the public for hours during a live broadcast on state television.

Alexei Navalny was arrested during protests in Moscow on Saturday. Demonstrators across Russia marched in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, who begins his fourth term in office Monday.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will not run for re-election. Also, we look at the legality of potential U.S. missile strikes on Syria and Russia's response.

Russians are angry about a mall fire in Siberia that killed 64 people. And, the U.S. and other countries expelled Russian diplomats after an ex-Russian spy in Britain was exposed to a nerve agent.

Russia is the biggest country in the world by land mass, so when you ask what Russians think about the presidential election this Sunday, the answers vary greatly by geography.

When Russia annexed Crimea, it set relations with Western societies on a confrontation course. Four years after Russian President Vladimir Putin's brazen gamble, NPR looks at how people in Crimea view the union with Russia.

The fire broke out in a shopping mall in Siberia, according to Russia's Emergencies Minister. Many of the missing are children. It's Russia's deadliest fire in years.

Prisoner Oleg Sentsov's lawyer says his client's health is worsening on a weeks-long hunger strike to win the release of more than 60 people Sentsov says are political prisoners in Russia.