Just ahead of the second anniversary of Islam Karimov's death, Uzbek state TV channels have stopped mentioning the late president's name as his image disappears and cult of personality diminishes.
An outspoken Siberian blogger who calls for separating women from men at "all levels" is being investigated for potential online hate speech, the latest Russian social-media user targeted in such cases.
A Russian town is confronting the past after pieces of a Josef Stalin statue were unexpectedly found in a local pond.
A Crimean Tatar poet is being investigated by Russia-installed officials for "rehabilitating Nazism" in her antiwar writings.
A U.S. court's conviction of Paul Manafort was a big blow to the man who served as President Donald Trump's campaign chairman. But it's nowhere close to the end of legal woes for the once-powerful Republican lobbyist.
Huge Uzbek weddings with several hundred guests can break a family's budget and put people in deep debt -- but President Shavkat Mirziyoev wants to make big parties illegal.
Czechs remain wary of the Kremlin 50 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion, even if their pro-Russian president prefers awkward silence.
After a group of clerics in the Iranian holy city of Qom hinted that Iran's president could meet the fate of a late mentor, even conservatives are questioning how far the country's hard-liners are willing to go.
Ukrainian photographer Tetyana Krukovets has created the Fearless Beauty project to break through the isolation that cancer patients often experience.
Locals in one rundown Siberian village have a plan to rename their community Syria and then apply to Moscow for humanitarian aid.
The Russian Orthodox Church is using a 2010 restitution law to push for ownership of the medieval Golden Gate monument in the historic city of Vladimir. It is just one of dozens of claims to high-profile or lucrative property that the church has filed in recent months that has many in the country worried about the church's growing secular might.
Officials have sought to paint a rosy picture of a multilateral Caspian deal that some regard as heavy on Iranian concessions.
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