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Beijing has nearly completed a towering Chinese Cultural Center where its former embassy was bombed in Belgrade by NATO in 1999. China hopes the structure will not only be a symbol of its growing ties with Serbia -- but also its deepening presence across the Balkans.

Ukraine's move to apply for membership of NATO on September 30 was met with quite some surprise in Brussels.

The mood among Central Asian countries regarding Moscow's actions in Ukraine has changed since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, which some countries in the region de facto recognized.

Prague will be at the center of European politics next week as most of the continent's leaders gather for two meetings on October 6-7 to discuss the war in Ukraine and its implications on various policy fields. RFE/RL takes a closer look at what to expect. 

Bulgarians went to the polls on October 2 for the fourth time in 18 months in a bid to end political instability in the Balkan nation. Dimitar Bechev, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and lecturer at Oxford University, analyzes the results.

The Ukrainian victory in the Donetsk region town of Lyman is the latest in a series of major battlefield defeats for Russia’s military. Criticism of Russian commanders is now bubbling to the surface. That’s a problem for the Kremlin

Bulgaria is holding its fourth parliamentary elections in less than two years. The country's political instability is not helped by a rash of small parties that are nationalist, anti-liberal, and firmly pro-Russian.

The chaotic and haphazard mobilization process under way inside Russia is fuelling speculation that the Kremlin is aiming to activate far more than the 300,000 soldiers initially stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Protests against the Kremlin's mass mobilization of men to fight in its war in Ukraine have cropped up across Russia. But they have been most noticeable and determined in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan, where members of the Kumyk ethnic group say they are being unfairly targeted.

Three million Bosnian voters go to the polls this weekend to choose candidates under a creaky system of ethnic preferences, with the fate of their beleaguered Balkan state seemingly in the balance. What are the races to watch and how will they shape what comes next?