Tens of thousands of people have been detained in Belarus in a brutal government crackdown after a disputed election in August 2020 extended the decades-long rule of Alyaksandr Lukashenka. For such "crimes" as wearing the wrong socks or dancing in the streets, people have been fined or even jailed.
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The crackdown that intensified upon Aleksei Navalny’s return to Russia six months ago appears to be expanding ahead of parliamentary elections at summer’s end. The latest victims include a legal-aid organization and an independent media outlet whose investigations have irked the Kremlin.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has called on the administration of Joe Biden to reschedule a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Mistreatment of prisoners remains widespread in Kazakhstan as law enforcement officers act with impunity, former inmates and rights groups say. Despite many reports and complaints, authorities have failed to carry out effective and impartial investigations.
The ambitious mayor of Montenegro's tourist powerhouse, Budva, surprised many when he said the former Yugoslav republic should restitute property to the Serbian royal family.
The editor of the municipal newspaper in the Sakhalin Island town of Uglegorsk has been fired, publication suspended, and the paper's website taken offline. Journalists say the shutdown was retribution for the paper's critical reporting on the coal producer that dominates the remote region.
China’s uncertain role in Afghanistan’s future, BRI and boots on the ground, attacks on Chinese workers in Pakistan, and Ukrainian infrastructure. Read the latest China In Eurasia briefing for expert comment and more about Chinese influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Beijing and the Taliban are strange bedfellows in Afghanistan, but they actually have a complicated, decades-old relationship.
Components delivered to Russia by a Lithuania-based company were used at power stations in Crimea despite EU sanctions, according to evidence discovered in an investigation by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service and its partners.
Iran is facing widespread protests in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province over water shortages caused by a severe drought.
Russia's venerable but creaky space program has seen plenty of ups and downs. The latest scandal involves the demotion of a cosmonaut who spoke out against a plan to shoot a Russian feature film on the International Space Station.
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