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Twenty-seven-year-old Russian reservist and former police officer Stanislav Bashilov simply climbed a fence on the Russian-Latvian border to get to the West. Staying there has been more difficult.

Dozens of activists of a hard-line Armenian nationalist group were detained by local police on January 8 after attempting to block entrance to a Russian military base in the northwestern Armenian town of Gyumri.

Two men were executed in Iran on January 7 after being found guilty of killing a member of the Basij force during antiestablishment protests in Karaj, near the Iranian capital, the judiciary said. 

Russians who had been actively investing in Crimean properties after Moscow occupied the peninsula in 2014 abruptly stopped doing so following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, with sales of residential real estate falling by 72 percent in just a year.

Two people were injured on January 6 in a shooting in a town in southern Kosovo that has a majority Serb population, officials in Kosovo and Serbia said.

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy has praised the United States for including tank-killing armored vehicles and antiaircraft missiles in its January 6 package of military aid, saying that they will strengthen Ukraine's army on the battlefield.

The deputy head of the United Nations aid office in Afghanistan has called for the Taliban to immediately lift bans on women attending university and working for nongovernmental organizations after a meeting with the Taliban-led government's minister of higher education.

Impoverished Afghans are reeling from a decision by major international aid agencies to suspend their operations in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban's ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Afghans have been cut off from critical assistance, including food aid.

The horrors of Romania's orphanages shocked the world after communism collapsed in 1989, when images emerged of emaciated children living in wretched conditions. Today, some of those adopted by families abroad are returning to Romania for answers and justice.

Our editors weigh in on their most satisfying spas of the past year, from an NYC respite in the Hamptons to a surprisingly tranquil Las Vegas stay.