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.
A female Afghan lawmaker is coming under criticism for slapping a police officer in Kabul, but she says he deserved it.
Politicians have moved from the background to the forefront in an escalation of protests against the Serbian president.
Beginning today, Facebook advertisers in Ukraine need the social network's authorization to reach users -- and ads from annexed Crimea and separatist-held areas are banned outright. But 13 days before an election, is it too little, too late?
Plans to build a trash incinerator plant in a town in the southern Russian republic of Tatarstan have sparked protests over fears the plant will dirty the air and cause more cases of cancer.
The fact that a small group of LGBT supporters joined a Women's Day march in Bishkek has unleashed a storm of anger, with one lawmaker warning against turning Kyrgyzstan into "Gayistan."
The guns carried by the man who is a suspect in mass shootings that killed at least 49 people in two New Zealand mosques were covered in historical names, written in English, Cyrillic, and Georgian. Why was a 12th-century Georgian king included?
The gunman's livestream of an attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, showed the suspect blaring a notorious Serbian song from the brutal Balkan wars of the 1990s in the moments before the rampage.
The Kremlin shrugs at the top Chechen legislator's "blood feud" threat against a blogger, while a top human rights activist in Chechnya faces a verdict in a drug-possession trial denounced as a "tragic farce."
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Thousands of Iranian actors, filmmakers, and other artists are on a secret blacklist banning them from performing or presenting their work publicly, a former director of Iran’s state-run radio and TV has said.
A Crimean Tatar was killed after being abducted in broad daylight while protesting Russia's seizure of Crimea in March 2014. Five years later, the case remains unsolved.
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