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Britain will retain thousands of European Union laws for at least the next two years, the government said on Thursday, setting out new targets…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on January 23 he had sent a letter inviting his Swedish counterpart to come to discuss his country's NATO accession bid.

Lawmakers on the Perm City Council on January 23 voted to cancel the mandate of their colleague, Sergei Medvedev, over his open criticism of Kremlin policies.

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev left Tashkent for Beijing on January 23 to start a three-day state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The Prosecutor-General's Office of Belarus said on January 23 that it had launched an investigation of Syarhey Dubavets, the self-exiled author of a rubric of RFE/RL's Belarus Service, known locally as Radio Svaboda.

NATO has signed a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) contract for 155 mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a shortage of munitions was hampering its war efforts.

Who in Russia can play for the “peace party”?

Local officials plan to organize rallies to support Radiy Khabirov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, after the sentencing of an outspoken critic of his government to four years in prison sparked massive protests that led to violent clashes with police.

Montenegro has declined Turkey's request to extradite Turkish citizen Binali Camgoz, an ethnic Kurd, because of suspected persecution on ethnic and religious grounds, the Justice Ministry said on January 23.

Moldova's breakaway Transdniester has announced a massive rally for January 24 to protest Chisinau's refusal to scrap newly introduced import and export duties for the Moscow-backed region.