Belarusian opposition figure Maryya Kalesnikava could be sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges that the U.S. State Department described as "an outrage." Kalesnikava is one of several opposition leaders facing jail or other forms of persecution from Alyaksandr Lukashenka's forces.
It’s shaping up to be the highest-profile trial in Ukraine in a decade: a powerful businessman politician with close ties to the Kremlin charged with treason.
Russian intelligence services have spied on and filmed Jehovah's Witnesses in a bathhouse, in the latest example of persecution against the outlawed Christian group.
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Putin snubs the Western Allies in a speech marking the anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II, and a devastating school shooting hits the heart of Russia.
Anastasia Peravoshchykava spent 105 days in a Belarusian jail for taking part in rallies calling for longtime leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka to step down. After being released this week, she spoke of her ordeal and the relief of seeing family, friends, and greenery again.
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.
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