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Chinese-style surveillance in Serbia, putting China's protests in context, Charles Michel's trip to Beijing, and Xi's leverage over Putin.

Irregularities marred a Kyiv court’s hearing of two lawsuits aimed at restoring ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential title and status ahead of the Russian invasion in February, a Schemes investigation reveals.

Iran is targeting the bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq; an Iranian journalist who went missing in Turkey has ended up in Iran; and a dissident rapper who backed the antiestablishment protests could face the death penalty.

A closer look at seven dubious lessons in a government-accredited history textbook for college-aged students in a region with a troubled recent past.

Bishkek artist Tatiana Zelenskaya’s art has covered everything from political crackdowns to war and sporting triumphs.

A court in the southwestern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Crimean Tatar activist Marlen Mustafayev to 17 years in prison on terrorism charges.

Canada's foreign minister, Melanie Joly, has ordered her officials to summon Russia's ambassador in Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, over a series of "hateful" anti-LGBT tweets, including one aimed at an openly lesbian federal minister.

Russian forces continued to shell civilian and infrastructure targets across Ukraine as fighting in the east continued unabated, military and regional officials said, as Ukrainians faced more cold weather and darkness after Moscow's strikes on its power grid caused rolling blackouts.

The jailed spokesman of the Iranian Teachers' Union's Coordination Council has published a letter saying that, after he was transferred from Tehran's infamous Evin prison to hospital due to illness, authorities chained him to the hospital bed for 12 days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed creating a "gas union" with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to establish a mechanism to ship natural gas between the three countries and to other nations, including China.