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

After decades of neutrality, Finland has formally applied to join NATO. RFE/RL's Georgian Service spoke to Major General Pekka Toveri, the former intelligence chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Col. Peterri Kajanmaa, director of the Department of Military Skills at the National Defense College.

Mark Cancian, a retired U.S. Marine colonel and senior adviser at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains how the Russian and Ukrainian militaries stack up against one another after three months of war and why a Russian assault on two cities is pivotal in the conflict.

How a committee Vladimir Putin ran in the early 1990s became enmeshed in a bribery scandal and a plan to spirit millions of dollars in illicit cash out of Russia.

Iranian state TV has been promoting a new religious song that critics say is an attempt to brainwash children. The song has been performed by schoolchildren across the country.

Children across Russia are being prompted to produce patriotic drawings for an art contest called "Z Patriot," aimed at drumming up support for the Kremlin’s false narrative about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. RFE/RL asked locals in a town in the southern Orenburg region what they think.

Beauty salons and women’s hairdressers in Turkmenistan have taken some of their businesses underground after authorities effectively outlawed certain beauty accessories and hairstyles. Defying the ban, many beauticians now offer the forbidden services behind closed doors or even in their homes.

The United States and Britain are offering Moldova military aid amid rising fears after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It has sparked a debate on whether the country should scrap its neutrality.

Despite official rhetoric about a “no-limits” partnership, three months of war in Ukraine shows the complications in the Beijing-Moscow relationship.

Ukrainian fighters are ushering in a new era of battlefield tactics by using powerful locally designed electric bikes.