An Uzbek woman says she was "permanently scarred" by a humiliating strip search, and could do without all the public attention her videotaped ordeal attracted.
A Russian-made beer mocking the nerve-agent poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Britain has drawn fire from critics in Belarus after it hit the shelves in Minsk.
At a provincial Uzbek medical facility patients often wait for hours for doctors to return from street cleaning, a compulsory practice still common across the country.
A quasi-religious painting depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin as the sun god Helios in the company of, among others, the Madonna and child and Kievan Grand Prince Vladimir has become a widely ridiculed viral meme in Russia. The artist who painted it makes no apologies for his depiction.
When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki later this month, they'll shake hands in a city that served as a bridge between Moscow and the West during the Cold War.
As Russia celebrates its advancement to the World Cup quarterfinal, a member of the last Soviet soccer squad to make it that far recalls that such sporting achievements used to be the norm.
Russian publicist Boris Stomakhin has spent nearly a decade in prison for his incendiary writings denouncing Russia's government. He's not optimistic about his future on the outside.
Eighty-five years ago this summer, more than 4,000 people died of disease, exposure, violence, and starvation at a Stalinist labor camp on Nazinsky Island in Siberia. Until 1988, the Soviet government suppressed the story of those hellish six weeks on what came to be known as Cannibal Island.
Oleh Sentsov is staging a hunger strike in a Russian prison for the release of Ukrainians. It may be an extreme form of protest, but fasting has long been a weapon in activists' arsenal.
Tajik opposition activists who opt or are forced to move abroad to carry out their work are being lured back by Dushanbe. But a return to the homeland essentially means giving up their vision for change.
The invalidated mayoral vote in the Moldovan capital have robbed pro-Western candidate Andrei Nastase of his victory, but have propelled him to the top of a protest movement that could shake the foundation of Moldova's besieged political establishment.
Three weeks ago, those who believed Russia could advance past the group stage at the 2018 World Cup "risked being declared insane."
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