Jake Thomas is a Newsweek night reporter based in Portland, Oregon. His focus is U.S. national politics, crime and public health. He has won numerous awards while covering government, social services ...

Destinations across Central Asia and Russia are gaining popularity among affluent Indonesian travellers seeking alternatives ...

For those in search of what travel writers call the truly unforgettable vacation, Moscow’s Literaturnaya Gazeta had the perfect answer: a trip for “rest and relaxation” down the Volga in the time of ...

In the basement of the Soviet embassy in Washington this week, sweating Russians worked furiously to bring some capitalist efficiency to their task: processing a flood of U.S. tourist visas for the ...

Russian authorities, according to the Ukrainian government and human rights groups, are reportedly forcing the illegal adoption of Ukrainian children under the guise of sending them on ‘vacation." But ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- It's the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. The train is roaring and rattling through the Russian wilderness toward Moscow. I'm lying on my back, eyes wide open, ...

(KYIV, Ukraine) — Russian authorities, according to the Ukrainian government and human rights groups, are reportedly forcing the illegal adoption of Ukrainian children under the guise of sending them ...