Legislation is in the pipeline in Russia that backers say is an effort to ensure the operation of a Russian Internet if access to servers located abroad is cut off. RFE/RL spoke with Tanya Lokot, who focuses on urban media and Internet freedom in Russia and Ukraine, about Russia's intentions.
The tragic deaths of five sisters in a nighttime fire in the Kazakh capital earlier this month has given new impetus to protests over welfare benefits for large families.
Bullish Russian economic data has caused eyes to pop among economists, financial analysts, and investment bankers. But some are wondering if numbers are being skewed for politics.
Across social media, Ukrainian cops made it known: They're "Banderites," from the ministry on down.
Tajik police are looking for the young people who vandalized a popular monument by drawing their names, initials, and hearts on it.
Schoolchildren in Ashgabat were ordered to clean the city’s major roads ahead of the Turkmen president’s weekend trip to the suburbs.
At least 25 cadets in Ulyanovsk have been diagnosed with potentially fatal infections of dog tapeworm. The military academy says they got it from petting a stray dog, but worried parents and others think there's more to the story.
A German company that produces electronic-surveillance tools has sold equipment to Turkmenistan's Communications Ministry, according to sources, raising fears that the authoritarian Central Asian state is deploying the technology to suppress dissent.
Google has faced numerous threats of suspension from the Russian government. Now another scandal over its mapping service has some lawmakers in an uproar.
"Putin's chef" serves up a poisonous allegation against prominent Putin foe Aleksei Navalny, who accuses him of lying, while an upbeat economic report prompts suspicion that the Russian statistics agency is cooking the books, and pro-Putin witches try to brew up trouble for the Kremlin's enemies.
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As a nascent North Macedonia gets its ducks in a row over a decades-old dispute with Greece, it's at the center of a tug-of-war for influence between Russia and the West that gives its imminent membership in the transatlantic alliance added significance.
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