Officials in Ashgabat have temporarily restricted traffic, but the scheme has paralyzed ambulance services and supercharged taxi fares.
After the fatal school shooting in Tatarstan's capital on May 11, some Russian officials are arguing that the best way to avoid a repetition is by keeping closer tabs on young people and further strengthening the authoritarian government's "ideology."
Demographer Aleksei Raksha, who was fired from Russia's state statistics agency after disputing its coronavirus numbers, says officials in Russia's regions are just making up pandemic statistics "out of their heads."
Built in 1910, the Rajab is Kazan's oldest wooden mosque and boasts a long and eventful history, including a fire, the Bolshevik execution of its first imam, and forced closure by the Soviets.
The attack on School No. 175 in the Tatar capital adds to a growing list of youths-on-school attacks in Russia in recent years, leading to scrutiny of the numerous steps federal authorities have taken to stop them.
The reported brutal killing of a 20-year-old gay man in the southwestern province of Khuzestan by his relatives shows the hardships sexual minorities face in Iran.
With Beijing's growing role in higher education, Serbia is becoming the "poster child" in the region for cooperation with China.
International media-freedom watchdogs are urging an Uzbek court to overturn the conviction of a blogger who was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison on "trumped-up" extortion and slander charges.
Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein has thrown red meat to Romania's nationalists in the alleged trophy killing of one of the country's biggest brown bears.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has often ignored the West's role in his May 9 speeches marking victory in World War II. This time he took it a step further, saying the Soviet people were "alone" at the toughest times in the war, speaking volumes about his use of the war for propaganda purposes.
A jailed Iranian Sufi made a plea to the outside world to send books for inmates. Within days, thousands of books had arrived at the detention facility outside Tehran where many antiestablishment protesters are held.
Having a tattoo or a divorced sister is not a good recommendation for mothers in the eyes of local courts in Russia’s North Caucasus.
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