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Chinese-style surveillance in Serbia, putting China's protests in context, Charles Michel's trip to Beijing, and Xi's leverage over Putin.

Irregularities marred a Kyiv court’s hearing of two lawsuits aimed at restoring ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential title and status ahead of the Russian invasion in February, a Schemes investigation reveals.

Iran is targeting the bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq; an Iranian journalist who went missing in Turkey has ended up in Iran; and a dissident rapper who backed the antiestablishment protests could face the death penalty.

A closer look at seven dubious lessons in a government-accredited history textbook for college-aged students in a region with a troubled recent past.

Bishkek artist Tatiana Zelenskaya’s art has covered everything from political crackdowns to war and sporting triumphs.

An Iranian dissident journalist who went missing in Turkey has ended up in Iran, where is being held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, RFE/RL has learned. Mohammad Bagher Moradi, who disappeared in Ankara on May 30, told his family that he was in the custody of "intelligence bodies."

A gay-rights activist and historian has opened Russia's first museum of LGBT culture in St. Petersburg. But the exhibition will become illegal if, as expected, the government approves a draconian new law against sharing information about so-called "nontraditional" lifestyles in the coming days.

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two major issues: the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Bucharest and what is predicted to be a stormy OSCE gathering in the Polish city of Lodz.

As the United States and Iran prepare to face off for a chance to reach the knockout stages of soccer's World Cup, the political gamesmanship is already in play.

Riho Terras, an EU lawmaker and former Estonian defense minister, says even if Kyiv were to cede territory to Russia during the current conflict, Ukraine has already won. He made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with RFE/RL's Georgian Service.