Bribery for basic services remains pervasive in many former communist nations.
Which post-Soviet countries have the highest minimum wages?
Two-thirds of the world's 3.2 billion people with Internet access live in countries where government critics are subject to censorship, according to Freedom House.
How does the U.S. president’s salary compare to that of other world leaders?
Americans go to the polls on November 8, 2016, to vote for the 45th president of the United States. They won’t choose him or her directly, but through a body known as the Electoral College, where each state is allocated votes based roughly on the size of its population. To win, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral votes out of a total 538. The candidate from the incumbent party is Democrat Hillary Clinton. Donald J. Trump is the candidate for the Republican Party.
Here's how U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off on six key foreign policy issues.
The recent militant attack on the Balochistan Police Training College in Pakistan is one of the deadliest to hit country in the past 10 years.
Russia’s “foreign agent” law requires nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funds and engage in political activity to declare themselves as foreign agents, a label that bears crippling stigma and is associated with Cold War-era espionage. Moscow says the law is needed to prevent outside intervention in Russian politics. But human rights groups allege that the government is using the law’s vagueness to counter opposition groups.
Russians’ approval of the activities of their government, led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, has reached a two-year low.
While Italy and Greece have been among the most vocal in their opposition to EU sanctions on Russia, it’s the Baltics that are hit hardest by trade losses.
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