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Iran says it is closing the French Institute for Research in Tehran "as a first step" against "insulting" cartoons of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that were published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / January 5, 2023 / The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) this week published its annual end-of-year "Editor's Picks" series featuring its top reports and videos

Amid a deepening economic crisis at home, Turkmen President Serdar Berdymukhammedov is making his first state visit to China where he will meet with his counterpart, Xi Jinping, in hopes of securing investment and a larger energy market.

Dozens of leading political and rights activists gathered on the central square of Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, on January 5 to commemorate victims of mass protests one year ago that turned violent and left at least 238 people dead across the country, mostly in Almaty.

Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has reshuffled the government, the presidential administration said on January 4.

Explosions were reported in the vicinity of Russia’s Belbek military airfield on Ukraine’s occupied Crimean Peninsula early on January 4, while Moscow renewed its air attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. 

The trial in absentia of Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikanouskaya and several of her allies will open in the Minsk City Court on January 17, the country’s Supreme Court announced on January 3.

Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) says its officers and counterparts from Russia's Federal Security Service have apprehended 18 alleged members of a criminal group.

Forecasters in Moscow are predicting severe cold weather for the January 6-10 period.

Ruslan Khasbulatov, a Russian politician whose dramatic standoff with then-President Boris Yeltsin in 1993 led to the deadly shelling of the parliament building in Moscow, an event that transformed post-Soviet Russia's political trajectory, has died at the age of 80.