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As Bulgaria finds itself mired in political instability and with the fourth parliamentary elections in two years, Bulgaria's far-right Revival party is making gains.

Armenia and Azerbaijan recently traded fire across their shared border, with Azerbaijani shells hitting cities in southern Armenia. For many Armenians, that incursion has been a worrying wake-up call, with the country's political elite no longer certain the country can rely on Russia for support.

Iran has arrested a singer whose song about the ongoing protests in the country has gone viral, RFE/RL's Radio Farda has learned. Shervin Hajipour's arrest comes amid a crackdown on artists, journalists, and activists.

At least 23 people were killed and 28 wounded in a Russian missile attack that hit a convoy of civilian vehicles near the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya on September 30, regional governor Oleksandr Starukh said.

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's vast team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

An investigation by Schemes, a unit of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, found that a senior Ukrainian judge has Russian citizenship. Now he’s facing a criminal probe.

In an address marking Moscow’s attempted seizure of a large swath of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said Russia was locked in a life-or-death struggle with the United States. He ignored the realities of the war in Ukraine, where battlefield setbacks are a serious challenge to his ambitions. 

Seven months into Russia's war, amid a massive mobilization and moves to claim sovereignty over large portions of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is set to deliver an address at the Kremlin on September 30. Here's what to watch for.

Amid the ongoing protests in Iran triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody, a growing number of women have appeared in public without their headscarves, in acts of defiance against the country's clerical regime.

Russian political commentator Ivan Preobrazhensky says the Kremlin is pushing ahead with the attempted annexation of four more Ukrainian regions and a mass military mobilization in a bid to turn its invasion of Ukraine into a “defensive war” for domestic audiences.