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A Gas Cutoff Sends Shivers Through a Russian-Backed Breakaway Region

5 January 2025 at 18:00
A renegade part of Moldova once boasted it would become a Russian-speaking Switzerland. Now without gas, its leader assured residents, “We will not allow a societal collapse.”

© Andreea Campeanu for The New York Times

A woman walking on the train lines on Friday in Bender, Transnistria.

In Kosovo, Christian Converts Hope to Revive a Pre-Islamic Past

Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as a key to their European identity.

© Armend Nimani for The New York Times

Two men chatting in front of a church in the village of Llapushnik, Kosovo, where a baptism ceremony took place in November.
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