BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

Russia and Spain

National glory rising in Russia, and the medieval warriors fighting in southern Spain

The battle to bring peace to Libya, and people who want the Ukraine like the old USSR

Political life in Thailand's rural north-east stifled; who is killing Kenya's elephants?

With stories from Niger, Nigeria, China, Kashmir and southern France

Teachers and pupils brave threats go to school in Kano; Syrian-Armenians retrace the past

People vs power: the struggles in the Agadez Governor's office and La Puya's protest camp

Visitors rise, violence ebbs in Srinagar; the French town that's a Roma pilgrimage site

Will Sisi's election turn out to have been a real milestone? Plus, gay rights in Georgia

The spirit of Tiananmen, 25 years on; the myths of Odessa.

A panorama of Brazilian stories - from the Snake Man of Bahia to the Awa of the Amazon