For months across the United States, lawmakers, activists, journalists, average Americans, and most of all, President Donald Trump, have been waiting anxiously to learn about the outcome of the most politically explosive criminal investigation in a generation.
In a letter on behalf of the rich countries' club, France warned top Ukrainian cop Arsen Avakov that "extreme political movements" are trying "to usurp the role of the National Police."
An activist in Russia's Far East has been questioned by police who accuse her of distributing pornography over a series of hand-drawn posters promoting positive body images of women. It wasn't her first run-in with the law this month.
In resigning as president but keeping key roles, did long-ruling Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbaev just hand Vladimir Putin a cheat sheet for the 2024 Question?
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For the first time, Tehran city officials have honored the contribution of Afghan migrants, many of whom work menial jobs and face widespread discrimination in the country.
Since Mikhail Lesin was found dead in a D.C. hotel room in 2015, one question has persisted: did the onetime Kremlin insider really die of blunt-force trauma caused by drunken falls? Multiple forensic experts who studied autopsy records obtained by RFE/RL raise suspicions -- and new questions.
A timeline of the final three days in the life of Mikhail Lesin, a former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin who mysteriously turned up dead in a Washington hotel.
Twelve-year-old Pskov youngster Tasya Perchikova's request for assistance for her desperate and impoverished mother has brought the family more trouble than they could imagine.
Social-media users in Kazakhstan have reacted to the resignation of veteran President Nursultan Nazarbaev. The tone was certainly not somber.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev surprised many when he resigned in a special nationwide address on March 19. But since he's keeping several other influential positions in Kazakhstan, many wonder if he's really making a clear break from power.
An incendiary TV report about Central Asian migrants in Russia has prompted denunciations on social media and anger over what some viewers deemed an effort to fuel ethnic tensions.
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