With around 40 people still in the running, the head of the hard-line judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, and former parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani are among the standout candidates for next month's heavily vetted presidential election.
Recent anti-Semitic incidents in Romania have led to introspection and highlighted the dark chapters of the country's World War II history.
A teenage grandson -- one of around 400 "IS children" in Kazakhstan -- is a 60-year-old Kazakh woman's only connection to her late daughter.
Young people have grabbed most of the attention in Russia's pro-democracy protest movement. But a few resolute pensioners have joined their ranks. “I live by the principle: Do what you must and come what may,” one elderly activist said.
Ahead of the G7 summit next month, a group of Western democracies is looking for a way to rival Beijing’s massive global infrastructure project.
Local defenders say the Chinese builder of a controversial $1 billion stretch of highway in Montenegro is proposing to fix just a fraction of the damage it's done to a UNESCO-protected river canyon.
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.
It's possible you may have missed some of our most compelling journalism this week. To make sure you're up-to-date, here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
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.
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