Darya Ageny stabbed a man who attempted to rape her. Facing years in jail for inflicting grievous bodily harm, she has now launched a campaign to help women who act in self-defense and is seeking to change Russia's culture of victim-blaming.
The botched investigation of a teenage girl's kidnapping and killing exposed a tangled web of criminal world connections to police and politicians.
Previous attempts to overhaul Ukraine's scandal-prone domestic security service, the SBU, have failed. With an historic mandate for reforms secured in recent elections, can Ukraine's politically inexperienced new president get the job done? Or is it a mission impossible?
Five hundred days of round-the-clock defense of a small river in central Bosnia against the building of a dam earned protesting residents of Kruscica some consolation. But it's not the end of the debate in the Balkans over such projects.
Fourteen women have called on Iran's supreme leader to resign after accusing the Islamic republic of "gender apartheid." At least two of them have reportedly been detained. One told RFE/RL the women will never backtrack on their demand despite being pressured.
Emergency responders have been sent to Moscow for evaluation. People are being warned not to eat fish. More than a week after a mysterious explosion at a Russian naval test range on the White Sea, there's still a worrying vacuum of information about what exactly happened.
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Russia has endured deadlier and more momentous developments in August in the past, but not always so many of them. Amid massive wildfires, weekly protests whose size has grown, and a mysterious blast that killed five nuclear specialists, the Kremlin seems to be working hard to look calm, cool, and collected.
In the aftermath of a deadly radioactive incident in Russia's Far North, many have suggested the culprit was the testing of a nuclear-propelled missile capable of flying at hypersonic speeds. But others say the case is far from closed.
Tens of thousands of Muscovites are fighting for a fair election in the city at Russia's heart. State TV and pro-Kremlin media are casting them as a freaky assortment of fringe groups out to subvert values, sow chaos, and hand Crimea back to Ukraine -- or just to listen to music.
Nearly a decade since the United States opened secret negotiations with the Taliban, the two sides appear to be on the verge of a peace agreement.
Going back to President John F. Kennedy, U.S. administrations have tried and failed to stop Kremlin energy pipelines to Europe. Will President Donald Trump have more luck blocking Nord Stream 2 -- and how high are the stakes?
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