A Belarusian opposition figure jailed for criticizing the president and fomenting rebellion against the government has been set free by a surprise decree from President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
A journalist who alleges official harassment in his native Russia after he joined the opposition finds a home in Kyiv. He intends to keep up his criticism.
A new postage stamp adorned with the portrait of the increasingly unpopular president has sparked mixed feelings among Moldovans, not least embarrassment.
"Slobo, save Serbia," groups of youths could be heard chanting in the streets of Belgrade in September 2000. "Kill yourself!"
2007 was a bad year for freedom, according to a prominent rights-advocacy organization that has registered a global decline in political rights and civil liberties for the second consecutive year.
A court in Belarus has sentenced a critic of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka who had already served a year and a half in jail to an additional 18 months of confinement.
The European Union has lifted border controls in nine of its newest members. But for post-Soviet neighbors just to the east, the system may feel like a new Iron Curtain.
Parliament confirms Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister three years after her brief first term in office. But her renewed partnership with President Yushchenko is precarious at best.
Chisinau is rocked by a bitter feud between the country's communist president and the city's pro-Western mayor. At the heart of the debate, a divisive question: When should the Christmas tree go up?
A Belarusian activist has told RFE/RL that his beating by police during a December 12 demonstration in Minsk is linked to his recent trip to Washington, where he met with the U.S. president and testified before a Congressional commission.
In mid-November, members and supporters of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), one of the world's best-known rights watchdogs, converged on the Finnish capital to mark the group's 25th anniversary.
A Minsk court this week began hearing a defamation case that could result in the closure of one of the last independent newspapers in Belarus.
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