A prominent Uzbek singer and composer has complained to the country's president that he is virtually banned from TV and performing concerts because of his long beard.
A court ruling says the Trump administration used a "tortured" interpretation of the law to justify life-threatening delays on visa applications from Afghans and Iraqis who helped the U.S. military.
A Russian journalist recounts enduring a week of intense interrogations after being detained in Iran and accused of having ties to Israeli intelligence services.
Tajik women with alleged links to Islamic State members living in displacement camps in northeast Syria fear for their lives amid the Turkish incursion.
The suspects in the 2018 poisoning of a Russian spy in England claimed they were simple nutritional-supplements salesmen. But one of them was an important guest at the wedding of a secretive Russian military official's daughter, an open-source investigation shows.
Several Tajik citizens have ended up in jail after returning from abroad with assurances from the government that they wouldn't face charges.
The Russian Orthodox Church, Gazprom, and the government have created a chain of some 20 Russian "history parks" that historians say present a "propagandistic" view of history with one main lesson -- "we need to gather together around our leader."
Arrested during an 8,000-kilometer trek to Moscow to "exorcise" Putin, Yakut shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev is pledging to gather his followers once again and resume his long march from the spot where he was thwarted in September.
In a 14-hour media marathon at a trendy Kyiv food court, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fielded more than 500 questions. He left a few big ones unanswered, and some of his responses raised eyebrows -- as well as further questions.
The indictment unsealed this week targets two U.S. businessmen with Ukrainian business interests, charging them with violating campaign-finance laws. But the court papers also add more evidence of Ukrainian links to the impeachment inquiry that has engulfed President Donald Trump's administration.
Moscow piled pressure on opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, branding his group a "foreign agent" based on alleged donations from abroad totaling less than $2,200. And Vladimir Putin appeared with his defense chief in what looked like a painstakingly informal birthday photo shoot in Siberia.
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