Over time, these pancakes became the festival’s signature food. Known as a blini, or dense and yeasty buckwheat pancake, these buttery treats can be crowned with a variety of sweet or savory toppings ...

Even President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged “many truly pressing, urgent problems” in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which were illegally annexed by Moscow months after ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Even now, safely in her new home of Estonia, Inna Vnukova says she can’t purge the terrifying memory of living under Russian occupation in eastern Ukraine early in the war and ...