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Relations between Moscow and Nur-Sultan have been deteriorating since the beginning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine (see EDM, April 5, May 12). In response to unfriendly commentaries and actions by Russia, Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has sought to distance himself from Moscow concerning the war. Relatedly, he has been pursuing both closer ties with China, Turkey, …

Georgians make up the most prominent contingent of foreign fighters in Ukraine. At least nine have been killed.

In 1998, days after Vladimir Putin was named to head the FSB, a journalist digging into his past was beaten to death -- a brutal attack that's examined in the final installment of an investigative series by RFE/RL on the early part of Putin's rise to power. Enterprise Editor Carl Schreck and Andrei Soshnikov, an investigative journalist and web editor for Current Time, join host Steve Gutterman to discuss the project and the story of Anatoly Levin-Utkin's killing.

21/06/2022 - The Iceland Documentary Film Festival returns with a selection of international documentaries and a series of parallel events, including industry activities

21/06/2022 - The Iceland Documentary Film Festival returns with a selection of international documentaries and a series of parallel events, including industry activities

A court in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, has ordered two independent bloggers to be detained for two months as they await trial on charges of cooperating with banned organizations and political parties, and the alleged beating of a police officer.

A court in the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent has rejected an appeal filed by lawyers of opposition activist Erulan Amirov of a lower court's ruling sentencing him to seven years in prison on terrorism charges.

The battle for Syevyerodonetsk has an uncanny echo of the fighting in Mariupol, with Ukrainian forces holding out in a huge industrial facility. In Syevyerodonetsk they are holed up in the Azot chemical plant, while in Mariupol the last stand against invading Russian forces was mounted in the Azovstal steelworks. A former worker at Azot said that the two plants are very different, and that there are indications that not all potentially dangerous chemicals were removed from Azot in time. He spoke...

The Tajik government's deadly response to protests in the country's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region has shocked activists and angered citizens.

21/06/2022 - The Iceland Documentary Film Festival returns with a selection of international documentaries and a series of parallel events, including industry activities