Avedis Hadjian

The world's worst nuclear accident turned a swath of Ukraine into wasteland. Today it's a wildlife sanctuary: transformed, but still dangerous.

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine reject a Geneva accord directing them to vacate government buildings and disband.

Overmatched in absolute terms, Ukrainians think they have a good chance of beating Russia if the conflict turns to partisan warfare.

Ukraine may get $18 billion from the international lender, but there are strings attached.

Reporter Avedis Hadjian talks to Ukrainians on the streets of Kiev, in the tent villages of Maidan Square and in pro-Russian enclaves in Crimea.

Ukraine's first elected president tells IBTimes in an exclusive interview that he fears the escalating crisis will embroil the Western world in a full-scale war.

Ukrainian economic leaders, oligarchs and average citizens debate how to forestall economic ruin.

The former U.S. embassy in Tehran is a bizarre, must-see tourist site and a focal point for enduring anti-American sentiment.

Ukraine's fabulously wealthy business owners are lying low, generally not siding with pro-Euro or pro-Russian factions in the ongoing uprising.

The "nation within five nations" long quest for autonomy may find support in Iraq's oil and Turkey's desire to join the EU.

They are fluent in Ayapaneco but they're not on speaking terms. Each essentially has a dying language to himself.

The Subcomandante Marcos-led movement has given up trying to change the world. Instead, it wants to change things one village at a time.

The Mexican state of Chiapas is an island of Islam in a country characterized by Catholicism, which has led to the creation of a hybrid culture.

Chile is a stable democracy and an economic success story. The indigenous Mapuche people are tired of seeing this wealth from the outside.