Abkhazia became a gray zone: Gudkov traveled to the area in 2001 and found it economically depressed and physically devastated. “My job was to visit these regions in the Caucasus where Russian ...

In the Gray Zone: Russia Ratchets Up the Pressure The wreckage of the DHL cargo plane is seen at the crash site near Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania, November 25, 2024.

They call it the gray zone: a two-kilometer stretch of road contested by both Russian and Ukrainian forces but controlled by neither. Thirty-thousand civilians have braved this treacherous path ...

The ‘Gray Zone’ Comes to Russia Moscow holds certain hot spots abroad in a stasis of isolation and neglect. Now part of Russia is experiencing these conditions for itself.