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Kazakh anti-corruption officials have closed their investigation into the detained nephew of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, accusing him of embezzling millions from state telecom and transport companies.

Poland has begun demolishing a Soviet-era memorial to Red Army soldiers, the latest in a series of monuments that have been pulled down in Central and Eastern Europe amid growing hostility toward Russia and its invasion of Ukraine.

Investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov discusses how Russia's intelligence agencies have dealt with early failures in the war in Ukraine and the problems they still face after half a year of fighting.

An Albanian court has ordered two Russians and a Ukrainian held in custody pending an investigation by authorities into what they were doing at a former weapons manufacturing plant.

Canada's IMAX Corporation, which left the Russian market in early June over Moscow’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, says it has now banned the use of its equipment in Russia.

Belarusian punk-rock musician Ihar Bantser, who was scheduled to be released last weekend after serving a 15-day jail sentence for allegedly spreading extremist materials, has instead been given another 15-day jail term on the same charge.

The prosecution has asked a court to sentence a couple, who are self-declared anarchists, to five years in prison each for criticizing the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, with a protest banner they unfurled at the agency's headquarters in 2018.

Waning Western support? Political problems for Putin and Zelenskiy? Europe freezing amid a Russian energy cutoff? More weapons from the West? Victory? Peace? As Russia's invasion of Ukraine hits the six-month mark, here’s what to look for in the coming months ahead.

Hungary's top two weather officials have been fired after a mistaken rain forecast prompted the postponement of a fireworks display that caused a political uproar.

Tens of thousands of Russians protested in the days following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, and thousands were detained. Six months later, only a few brave souls still protest the war, and many of them feel disheartened by their society’s indifference to what they see as barbarism.