The U.S. envoy in Kyiv says Ukrainians will overcome their current difficulties of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, corruption, and financial problems because they have survived so many major crises in recent years.
A Yerevan appeals court has granted bail to the deputy chairman of the opposition Heritage party, who was charged in connection with a recent rally.
A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has jailed three members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has proposed to parliament a mass amnesty law that would release more than 12,000 convicts.
Authorities in Moscow say two unidentified men armed with guns and axes attacked a police post outside of Moscow.
The Associated Press reports that political consultant Paul Manafort, the chairman of Republican candidate Donald Trump's U.S. presidential campaign, may have helped former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government funnel millions of dollars to U.S. lobbyists in a way that obscured the source of the funding.
Authorities in Ukraine say they have detained an Uzbek citizen believed to have been fighting alongside Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk.
Kazakhstan's Boxing Federation (FBK) says it will pay $100,000 to a heavyweight boxer who lost a gold-medal bout in Rio to a Russian competitor in a highly controversial decision.
A university in Azerbaijan has fired 50 Turkish educators for alleged links with Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for an unsuccessful coup attempt in Turkey in July.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has pledged that the United States will "stand by the people of Kosovo," adding that "if you succeed, the region will succeed."
Municipal authorities in Moscow have denied permission for a commemoration march to mark the 25th anniversary of the failed hard-line coup attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Russian officials say four suspected members of an illegal armed group were killed by security forces in an operation at an apartment building in St. Petersburg.
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