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Our editors’ picks for the most sublime skin-care products suitable for gifting, from retinol serums to transformative face masks.

A court in St. Petersburg on December 12 ordered popular Russian rapper Oxxxymiron to pay a fine of 45,000 rubles ($705) for "discrediting Russia's armed forces" in comments over Moscow's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

A court in the Siberian city of Chita has fined a blogger for sharing on Instagram a dream he had where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes an appearance. 

Izyum resident Inga describes how, under Russian occupation, there was no news of the outside world. That is, until she strung copper to her headphones and mobile phone and managed to access an RFE/RL radio station. "It gave us hope," she says.

The spectacle of RRR in the West doesnt seem to cease any time soon.

Iran has placed sanctions on more than two dozen people and entities, including RFE/RL's Persian-language service, Radio Farda, ahead of an expected European Union decision to slap a new round of sanctions on Tehran.

A brother-in-law of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has died in an Iranian clinic at the age of 54, sources close to Tajikistan's government told RFE/RL.

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.

The organizer of a screening in Yerevan of a film banned in Russia and Belarus says a power outage that delayed the screening by nearly two hours is a troubling sign that a common practice of Russian censors is now being used in Armenia.

A senior Iranian official close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has harshly criticized the policies of the Islamic republic's leadership in a video interview.