In the remote village of Khinalug in northern Azerbaijan, some 2,000 residents form a distinct ethnic group with their own language. The Khinalug herders, who recently returned to their mountain homes from the grazing land where they spent the winter, told RFE/RL photographer Abbas Atilay about the journey.
Victory in World War II is marked across Europe and Chechnya hosts soccer legends.
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An unprecedented bomb attack strikes at a subway station in Minsk, while Russia remembers cosmonaut Yury Gagarin.
Authorities in Belarus have begun the task of identifying those killed in the April 11 explosion at a subway station in central Minsk.
Belarusian authorities vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of an explosion in a subway station in the capital, Minsk, that killed 15 people and injured at least 200 more.
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