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Iranian students have protested against "Stone Age” restrictions imposed at universities, including stricter hijab rules on female students.

Statues and memorials built to glorify and memorialize the Soviet Union and the Red Army have been torn down -- in one case illegally, in several countries amid outrage at the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Despite their total control of power, Iran’s political hard-liners appear to be gripped by infighting. The controversy over the reported shopping trip by the family of Iran’s parliament speaker has helped expose those divisions.  

A series of explosions over recent days in Transdniester, a breakaway region of Moldova, has raised fears that the Kremlin may be set to expand its war. But facing a fierce fight already in Ukraine, is that realistic?

In its drive to eliminate all dissent over its war against Ukraine, Moscow has stepped up pressure on artists across Russia, pushing them to speak out in favor of the invasion or face dismissal or worse. Some artists say the war could spell the end of post-Soviet Russian culture.

A Ukrainian-Israeli painter famous for images of her childhood in Kyiv has painted the ongoing war in her homeland.

From cyberattacks in Europe to extradition deals in South and Central Asia, a new report shows just how far Beijing's campaign of transnational repression has spread.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Putin "tandem" partner and single-term president whose liberal talk briefly bought hopes for change in Russia, has been unleashing poisonous rants against Kyiv and the West amid the war in Ukraine. What's behind the transformation -- if that's what it is?

Millions of Russians have blood ties to Ukraine. One student from Tatarstan tells how the war there has affected her family, some of whom are living under bombardment in Ukraine while others are now refugees. One relative is a Russian officer organizing the return of bodies of slain soldiers.

More than 60 percent of the towns in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhya region are controlled by the Russian military. But the Ukrainian military governor of the region says the front lines are holding even as fighting has grown more intense in recent days.