Afghanistan's presidential election crisis is threatening to spill over into the peace process just as the United States and Taliban prepare to sign a historic agreement.
Long after he was out of the Russian government and half a decade before he was shot dead steps from the Kremlin, Boris Nemtsov ran against the Kremlin's candidate for mayor of Sochi. A reporter who covered the contest remembers a race that tested whether the country would move closer to democracy under Dmitry Medvedev, who had taken Vladimir Putin's place as president the year before.
In comments likely to infuriate Kyiv, an influential former Kremlin aide echoes long-standing Russian imperial ideas about its Slavic neighbor -- and questions the existence of Ukraine as a country.
By the time he was killed, on February 27, 2015, Boris Nemtsov had become one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foes. In Nizhny Novgorod, capital of the region he governed in the 1990s, residents remember the meteoric rise of a precocious physicist and political whiz kid who brought free-market economics and a taste of democracy to Russia’s provinces.
The FBI has refused to release records of its investigation into a mysterious and near-fatal illness that struck Russian democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who believes he was poisoned with a sophisticated and potentially lethal toxin. So he’s suing.
Russian businessman Aleksandr Udodov, who is considered close to new Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, has probably invested close to $200 million over the past decade in various real-estate and agricultural projects. Like much of his past, the source of the money remains a mystery.
An Iranian lawmaker from Qom says 50 people have died in that holy Shi'ite city after being infected by the coronavirus. That is significantly higher than the official toll, which stands at 12.
A theater in Tashkent has become a cultural battleground between its fans -- including the Uzbek president’s daughter -- and property developers.
The turnout in Iran's February 21 parliamentary elections, the lowest ever in the Islamic republic, is a blow to the clerical establishment and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said voting was a religious duty.
A retired man in Russia's Karelia region brought a roll of toilet paper to the regional legislature and handed it to lawmakers to express his displeasure with a 21-ruble pension benefit indexation for "Labor Veterans" with exemplary work histories.
A jailed Iranian environmentalist says she has been subjected to severe psychological torture in an effort to make her confess to criminal charges, according to documents seen by the BBC.
Iran has confirmed 13 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing cases of the disease in the country to 18, including four deaths in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom. The outbreak has led to concern among some citizens who are questioning the official figures and the government's handling of the disease.
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