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Russian President Vladimir Putin waves people after delivering his speech at the concert marking the eighth anniversary of the referendum on the state status of Crimea and Sevastopol and its reunification with Russia, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 18, 2022. Vladimir Putin isn't quite the man he used to be — more than a decade has passed since the Russian president engaged in public stunts to boast of his vigor by hugging a polar bear or riding a horse barechested in the mountains. (Ramil Sitdikov/Sputnik Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Putin is expected to seek reelection in Russia, but who would run if he doesn't?
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Wed,11/01/23-11:48PM , 131 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Putin isn't quite the man he used to be — more than a decade has passed since the Russian president engaged in public stunts to boast of his vigor by hugging a polar bear or riding a horse barechested in the mountains.
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Ethnic Armenians gather in hope to leave Nagorno-Karabakh region for Armenia in the center of Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh announced Thursday that it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by the end of the year, and Armenian officials said more than half of the population has already fled. (AP Photo/Ani Abaghyan)

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Why this week's mass exodus from embattled Nagorno-Karabakh reflects decades of animosity
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Thu,09/28/23-11:53AM , 82 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The exodus of ethnic Armenians this week from the region known as Nagorno-Karabakh has been a vivid and shocking tableau of fear and misery.
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Men are seen fishing near the fortresses of Narva, left, in Estonia, and Ivangorod, right, in Russia, on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. The two countries took radically different paths after the Soviet Union's collapse, and an Associated Press correspondent who was in Moscow for almost all of Vladimir Putin’s rule until earlier this year has watched Russia’s steps forward as well as its retreat into isolation. Now assigned to Estonia, he tries to parse Russia's lost promise. (AP Photo/Jim Heintz, File)

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For nearly a quarter century, an AP correspondent watched the Putin era unfold in Russia
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Fri,09/08/23-11:20PM , 69 Reads
NARVA, Estonia (AP) — At the Ivangorod-Narva border crossing, the last glimpse of Russia is of a sprawling fortress and the first sight of Estonia is another fortress on the other bank of a slender river. They’re almost comically close: People with strong arms could have a game of catch between the ramparts.
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Police officers inspect area after an apparent Russian strike in Kyiv Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. On the battlefields of Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers. A related issue afflicts those who are far from the fighting but avid to learn developments in the vast war. Disinformation, misinformation and absent information all cloud civilians’ understanding. Officials from each side denounce devious plots being prepared by the enemy, which never materialize. They claim victories that can’t be confirmed and stay quiet about defeats.AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

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Russia's war with Ukraine has generated its own fog, and mis- and disinformation are everywhere
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Fri,08/04/23-11:04PM , 135 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — On the battlefields of Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers. And far from the fighting, a related and just as disorienting miasma afflicts those who seek to understand what's happening in the vast war.
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