A base equipped with tanks, gun range, and military equipment in a small Slovak town has raised fears among officials, but not locals.
The 80th anniversary of the formal beginning of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's 1937 Great Terror passed without any official notice from the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But people whose families were torn apart by the government's assault on its own people are trying to be heard.
Ukrainian hackers release a trove of electronic communications from a Belarusian man at the center of a network of pro-Russian and anti-Western groups operating in Central and Eastern Europe. He says that just because his efforts "aren't public doesn't make them a conspiracy of enemies of Ukraine."
Czech filmmaker Viktor Polesny is making a new film based on the life of sculptor Otakar Svec, who in the early 1950s created the world's largest monument to Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin. Svec committed suicide less than a month before the "monster" was unveiled.
