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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pledged to veto EU membership talks with Ukraine over an education law he claims will shutter Hungarian-language schools. But some ethnic Hungarians in the country’s Zakarpattya region say they see this stance as a political ploy.

Lawyers say the last vestiges of judicial independence and defense advocacy have been destroyed since the brutal crackdown on dissent by Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka following pro-democracy protests in 2020. 

Residents of the frontline city of Chasiv Yar fight to hold on to their dignity as they scratch out an existence in the ruins of heavy fighting in Ukraine's Donetsk region. The few locals who remain in the area rely on humanitarian support to survive. Despite constant attacks, one resident told Current Time that they returned to the city after evacuating because it's "better to be at home."

Ukraine said it struck two Russian landing boats on Friday in Crimea as part of its campaign to recapture the peninsula.

One year after Russian forces retreated from Kherson, the city is still grappling with the toll of the occupation and a grinding war that is not yet out of sight. 

The independent Kloop website's Kyrgyz-language pages (ky.kloop.asia) have been blocked in Kyrgyzstan after its Russian site was blocked in September amid ongoing pressure on the owner, the Kloop Media Public Foundation.

Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoev of Uzbekistan and Sergio Mattarella of Italy issued a joint statement in Tashkent on the development of a partnership and cooperation between the two nations, the Uzbek presidential press service said on November 10.

France on November 9 blamed a Russian disinformation campaign for amplifying graffiti of Stars of David that appeared in Paris earlier this week.

The husband of Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist jailed in Russia on accusations that she failed to register as a foreign agent, is calling on the U.S. government to declare her “wrongfully detained.” Kurmasheva, an American-Russian dual citizen, was detained on October 18. Authorities ordered her held until at least December 5. The editor works with…