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Good luck has helped the EU build up its natural gas storage, keeping fears of blackouts and frigid homes this winter at bay. Next winter could bring a bigger chill, particularly if Moscow ends all pipeline gas exports -- but longer term, analysts say, it’s Russia that will be left out in the cold.

An Islamic Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced an 18-year-old accused protester to two death sentences on charges of "corruption on Earth" and "waging war against God," the activist HRANA news agency reports.

The son of an imprisoned leader of Iran's Baha'i community says he has not heard from his mother for more than five weeks and prison authorities have prevented her from phoning or meeting with family members.

Demonstrators in the western Iranian city of Javanrud were set on by security forces and have reportedly faced a martial-style clampdown since gathering in a local cemetery to mark the end of the 40-day mourning period for seven protesters killed by security forces in ongoing unrest.

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the first week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having a significant impact on the world of academia, pushing scholars in a field that has long focused primarily on Russia to reconsider how they study and teach the history and culture of a region spanning two continents.

The International Year of Millets 2023 has officially kicked off.

Iranian journalist Keyvan Samimi has been released from prison after being jailed last year owing to his presence at a protest rally in May 2019, according to a reformist newspaper.

Anger over decades of state repression and economic mismanagement in Iran is unlikely to dissipate, analysts say, predicting that the protest movement is likely to endure as the gulf widens between the ruling clerics and Iran's young population.

As the world steps into 2023, global factors, like recessionary fears, geo-political risks, and rising Covid cases in China could keep the equity markets volatile, and the investors would have to be calibrated in the approach while picking stocks as investments.