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Relatives of a Tajik man from the country's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region say Russia extradited him to Tajikistan, where he may face illegal incarceration and arbitrary prosecution. 

An Iranian dissident journalist who went missing in Turkey has ended up in Iran, where is being held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, RFE/RL has learned. Mohammad Bagher Moradi, who disappeared in Ankara on May 30, told his family that he was in the custody of "intelligence bodies."

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Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces a prison sentence of up to 24 years on high treason and other charges, has been honored with an award for courage by the Berlin-based Axel Springer Foundation.

Camouflaged moorings for ships and submarines hidden along the coastline of Montenegro give a fascinating insight into Cold War tensions.

A gay-rights activist and historian has opened Russia's first museum of LGBT culture in St. Petersburg. But the exhibition will become illegal if, as expected, the government approves a draconian new law against sharing information about so-called "nontraditional" lifestyles in the coming days.

Kazakh activist Marat Abiev has been handed a 15-day jail term for organizing an unsanctioned protest rally on November 26, the day of President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's inauguration.

A court in the southern Kazakh city of Qyzylorda has sentenced a participant in the nationwide anti-government protests in January to 17 years in prison after finding him guilty of killing a soldier by running him over with a car during the dispersal of the protests.

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two major issues: the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Bucharest and what is predicted to be a stormy OSCE gathering in the Polish city of Lodz.

Iranian truck drivers have continued to strike for a third day, with more joining their ranks across the country despite threats from security agents over undelivered cargo.