Belarus's authoritarian leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has said that his country would be willing to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moved similar U.S. equipment from Germany to Eastern Europe.
Czech police have detained the chairman of the Football Federation of Belarus for illegally entering the country, local media report.
Hungary's parliament has passed a resolution authorizing the government to hold a national referendum on LGBT issues, putting the right-wing ruling party further at odds with the European Union and activists who view laws passed earlier this year as discriminatory.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has yet to decide whether to run again when his current term ends in 2024-- an option that was opened for him after the Kremlin pushed through controversial constitutional amendments last year.
A court in Moscow has sentenced an ultraconservative, coronavirus-denying Russian priest who was stripped of his religious rank to 3 1/2 years in prison on charges of vigilantism, violating the right to religious freedom, and encouraging suicide.
A freelance journalist who has worked for RFE/RL's Belarus Service has been sentenced to 10 days in jail on hooliganism charges as authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues his crackdown on independent media.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov says the State Committee for National Security (UKMK) is investigating a malfunction during ballot counting in a weekend parliamentary vote, but rejected calls from several opposition parties for fresh elections.
The European Union is set to adopt a fifth package of sanctions against Belarus that will add 17 people and 12 entities as the bloc targets those involved in what it alleges is Minsk’s orchestration of a crisis that has left thousands of migrants in squalid conditions on the border.
The sharp weakening of Turkey's national currency, the lira, is hitting Turkmen labor migrants whose families back home depend on remittances.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, to engage in a "constructive manner" in ongoing international negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers.
Amnesty has turned to the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples regarding the situation faced by a Yakut shaman who is being held in a psychiatric clinic against his will because of his attempts to march to Moscow to "drive Russian President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin."
A military helicopter from Azerbaijan's State Border Guard Service (DSX) has crashed, killing 14 and injuring two military personnel.
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