Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended the main Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square. Russia showed off its military might in the annual event on May 9. In an address, Putin hailed the Red Army's defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 but did not mention any role of the Western Allies.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has arrived for an official visit to Iran. The EU member country's diplomacy chief was received by President Hassan Rohani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on March 7.
Thousands of people laid flowers on February 27 at the site where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin six years ago. (Reuters)
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was fined on charges of defamation on February 20 after an earlier sentence on embezzlement charges was upheld. He now faces more than 2 1/2 years in prison. Navalny was arrested in January after receiving treatment for a near-deadly poisoning.
A Moscow court has upheld opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's prison sentence relating to his embezzlement conviction he has called politically motivated, but reduced the sentence by about 50 days considering time served. (AP, Reuters)
Following recent mass rallies that saw thousands of detentions, supporters of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny used light from cell phones, flashlights, and candles as a new form of protest.
Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls on February 14 to elect a new parliament. Among early voters in the capital, Pristina, were incumbent Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and two of his predecessors, Ramush Haradinaj and Albin Kurti.
Protesters rallied across Russia on January 31 in support of jailed opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny. As people marched through the streets chanting "Freedom for Navalny!" in Yekaterinburg, demonstrators were blocked and detained in Novosibirsk.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny made a statement via video link during a Moscow region court hearing on January 28, but his appeal of his 30-day detention was rejected.
Russian police detained Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny, during a protest in Moscow on January 23 where -- as in dozens of other cities -- people demonstrated calling for his release from prison. (Reuters)
Iranian nurse Somayeh Hosseinzadeh had to work back-to-back shifts away from her family for the first few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and says her department at Tehran's Shariati Hospital was like a "war scene," with elderly people and pregnant women dying around her.
Hundreds of migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries have been sleeping outdoors in freezing weather since a fire destroyed part of the Lipa camp in northwest Bosnia-Herzegovina. The military is rebuilding the camp to provide suitable winter shelter, but there's no timeline yet for w
Ballots were cast on December 20 in local elections in Mostar, a historic city in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Among early voters was Irma Baralija, a local politician who has won a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights against the Bosnian state for failing to hold municipal polls in Mostar.
Thousands of Armenians marched through the capital Yerevan on December 19 to commemorate the soldiers killed in a six-week conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. As Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian led the march calls for him to resign could be heard. (Reuters)
Security forces were seen detaining people at an anti-government march in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on Sunday, November 29. With larger turnouts at the weekends, demonstrations against Alyaksandr Lukashenka have been ongoing since a disputed August 9 presidential election.
Voters test electoral reforms intended to provide a broader range of political representation in the legislature. On October 31, citizens are deciding whether a ruling party will run the government on its own for an unprecedented third consecutive time. (RFE/RL's Georgian Service)
Amid ongoing protests following a presidential election widely seen as rigged, many Belarusians are showing a renewed interest in their native language and culture.
Turkish as well as Israeli and cheaper Russian-made drones are being used to powerful effect during Azerbaijan's attacks in and around the country's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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