Russia

Ukraine is in a state of crisis two days after the country's democratically elected president was ousted following months of street protests that left at least 82 people dead.

One Russian prisoner, released from Guantanamo Bay for lack of any evidence, remains imprisoned in Russia, an expedient scapegoat for dubious antiterrorism policies, says Aisha Maniar.

A recently leaked audio recording between two top US officials reveal the Obama administration has been secretly plotting with the opposition in Ukraine.

While the P5+1 negotiate with Iran this week and implementation of the Joint Plan of Action goes smoothly, a wide gap remains to be bridged.

Nicolai Petro: Violence persists between opposition and security forces, as opponents use culture to divide strongly nationalistic Ukrainian groups and factions identifying with Russia.

Might it be time to scale back the Olympics to a more reasonable level?

Slava Mogutin: Sochi Olympics can serve as a platform to challenge discrimination, violence and intimidation targeting Russia's LGBTQ community.

The strangeness of Russian politics is attributable to it being very, well, Russian.

Sochi is not the first Olympic community to be shortchanged, disrupted and abused.

The Geneva II “peace” conference has all the indicia of a sham.