Now In Legal Limbo, Ukrainian Inmates Freed When Russia Left Kherson Describe Life Under Occupation
KHERSON, Ukraine -- After three years in pretrial detention in Kherson, Pavlo, a man who is accused of rape, was ...
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Nazarbaev’s Son-In-Law Still Playing Monopoly In Kazakhstan’s Largest City
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- How does public land suddenly become private? For years that question has vexed Kazakh citizens who have ...
Iranian Singer Who Faces Prison Wins Grammy For Protest Anthem
In late November, three Iranian doctors traveled to the country's western Kurdistan region, the epicenter of ongoing antiestablishment protests, to ...
U.S. Targets Executives Of Iranian Drone Maker In Latest Sanctions Designation
In late November, three Iranian doctors traveled to the country's western Kurdistan region, the epicenter of ongoing antiestablishment protests, to ...
In Ukraine’s Donbas, Intensifying Russian Offensives — An Omen Of Things To Come?
In the eastern city of Bakhmut, months of relentless Russian assaults and waves of World-War-I-style infantry charges are taking their ...
Why An Old Bulgarian-Macedonian Feud Over An Ottoman-Era Revolutionary Is Flaring Up Once Again
Even this long after his death at the hands of Ottoman police in 1903, Balkan revolutionary Gotse Delchev can't find ...
Taliban Doubles Down On University Ban On Afghan Women
Welcome back to The Azadi Briefing, a new RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click ...
Rights Group Says At Least 185 Arrested In Iran’s Zahedan In Past Month
In early 2020, lawyer Meghdad Jebelli took the drastic decision to leave Iran and seek asylum in the West. Jebelli, ...
Writer Vladimir Sorokin Says Russia’s Unresolved Historical Traumas Have Now ‘Taken The Form Of War’
Vladimir Sorokin is among the best-known Russian authors of the last 50 years, a leading postmodernist whose works have been ...
Ukrainian PM Announces EU-Ukraine Summit In Kyiv On February 3
Corruption remains rampant in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) compiled by Transparency ...
