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On March 4, Russia adopted a new administrative statute and a draconian criminal law against "discrediting the armed forces." In the two weeks since, the country has seen a massive wave of repression against any form of criticism against the Kremlin's "special military operation" in Ukraine.

As hundreds of thousands of Russians leave their homeland amid the Ukraine war and resulting economic crisis, the new arrivals in Uzbekistan have caused rental prices and home sales to skyrocket in the capital, Tashkent.

In an interview with Current Time, the head of Ukraine’s state-run railroad said “honest people” among Belarusian railroad workers have completely cut off efforts to supply Russian forces by train via Belarus. "I can say that there is no railway connection between Ukraine and Belarus,” he said.

Interviews with some of Taplanszentkereszt's 2,000 residents suggest their support for the ruling party shouldn't necessarily be taken for granted.

With hundreds of Belarusians fighting for Ukraine and with hundreds more willing to take up arms to defend their southern neighbor, opposition activists suspect the state is resorting to fake social-media chats to catch would-be volunteers.

Serious, and seemingly predictable, obstacles to secure communications and data sharing among branches of the Russian military appear to have hampered its invasion plans from the first days of the war in Ukraine.

Budapest's most famous statue and the tragic human story behind it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to justify the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s intense crackdown at home in an “ominous” and falsehood-filled address, while civilian casualties mounted.

The Kazakh president has proposed reducing the powers of his office and also banning the president’s direct relatives from occupying high-ranking positions in the public sector. But critics dismiss the proposal as a populist move.

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