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George Barros from the Institute for the Study of War explains the significance of Ukraine's new tactics and how Russian forces are adapting. 

The Brikel coal-fired power plant has been polluting the air in Galabovo, Bulgaria, with impunity for years. Residents, authorities, and environmental activists have tried repeatedly to shut it down. But a court has ruled it can continue.

An NGO in Serbia linked to a political party allied to Hungary's ruling Fidesz party won a no-bid contract with the postal service of Serbia to distribute ballots to eligible voters there for Hungary's April parliamentary elections.

Estonia and Latvia leave Beijing's diplomatic framework; Russian propaganda on Taiwan; Kyiv's China policy; and a new UN report on Xinjiang.

Iran denies any links with the attack on Salman Rushdie while blaming the novelist for the stabbing.

Before the Russian invasion, the EBSH sport club was like any other gleaming gym in a well-heeled neighborhood, frequented by upwardly mobile members seeking to get fit. Now it hosts combat-training courses, which are in high demand in Ukraine's capital as war rages to the south and east.

A longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and an adviser to the Georgian government during its brief 2008 war with Russia, former Estonian foreign intelligence boss Eerik-Niiles Kross talked to RFE/RL's Georgian Service about the war in Ukraine and its antecedents.

Attacks against Islamic clerics appear to be increasing in Iran, highlighting public anger and antiestablishment sentiments.

Tallinn has declared the imminent removal of Soviet monuments from public spaces across Estonia. Here's a look at some of the Baltic country's communist-era memorials and statues.

Ethnic Armenians living near the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region are preparing to leave their homes, as a key roadway in the sliver of land connecting Armenia to the Azerbaijani region is completed. Many are reluctant to leave, while some Azerbaijanis who fled 30 years ago hope to return.