Iranian rescue workers have ended their search for survivors of recent heavy snowstorms and avalanches in mountains north of Tehran.
Lyubov Sobol, a prominent lawyer for outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), has said upon her release from detention that charges filed against her are "revenge" for Navalny's survival of a recent assassination attempt.
Opposition demonstrators in Belarus have continued their extended protests against Alyaksandr Lukashenka's rule by releasing red and white balloons into the sky.
Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to receive his country's Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine in the near future.
A court in the Russian North Caucasus city of Nalchik has banned four archive videos by the AP news agency from the wars in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s for allegedly "propagandizing cruelty."
The Kremlin has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not participate in the traditional end-of-the-year meeting with business leaders.
Following an announcement that Tehran had won approval from the United States to use foreign-currency reserves to buy coronavirus vaccines, Iran's president has claimed that Washington is now demanding that such a transaction go through a U.S. bank.
The chairman of the European People's Party (EPP) - the largest group in the European Parliament – has sharply criticized the policies of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an opinion piece published on December 27 by a German newspaper.
Snowstorms in Iran have left at least 10 mountain climbers dead and several others missing.
Hundreds of migrants have been exposed to falling temperatures and heavy snow after their tent camp in Bosnia was destroyed by fire earlier this week.
Prominent Cold War-era double agent George Blake has died in Moscow at the age of 98, Russian authorities have reported.
Police in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have detained at least 19 people who were participating in a demonstration in support of the region’s jailed former governor, activists say.
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