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Egyptian protests began on January 25, 2011, spurred in part by the success of protests in Tunisia and brought to a boil by a massive social media campaign. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were so effective in getting Egyptians out onto the...

The Dadaab Refugee Camp and the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi have seen an influx of hundreds of thousands of Somalis seeking a better life—but, as often as not, Kenya can offer them little.

At the latest government-sanctioned rally, the greatest challenge was simply staying warm.

On New Year’s Eve, a small-scale protest never gets off the ground—thanks to police intervention.

How an ’80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.

Our Russian writer and the photographer Maisie Crow rejoin the crowd of more than one hundred thousand in Moscow.

Notes from the author’s imprisonment in Belarus.

Surviving the Soviet Hangover in the former USSR’s last dictatorship.

If a dirty bomb attack ever occurs, the radiological material is apt to come from the land of Chernobyl

The Soviets detonated hundreds of bombs in Kazakhstan in preparation for a nuclear war that never came.