BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Few post-Soviet countries are as comfortable for a Russian-speaker to visit as Kyrgyzstan. This landlocked mountainous country of roughly 5.6 million, wedged between China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, kept Russian as an...

Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, voted on Tuesday to pass a measure banning the distribution of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” to anyone under the age of 18, which, in reality, criminalizes any kind of media or event that...