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Georgetown University's Margarita Konaev explains why it’s difficult to foresee an early end to the war in Ukraine and how Western support for Kyiv is more important than ever.

A Belarusian journalist in the southeastern city of Homel has gone on trial on charges of leading an extremist group and organizing activities that disrupt social order.

Iran is planning to manufacture airliners in an attempt to skirt U.S. sanctions and upgrade its decrepit fleet of passenger aircraft. But Iran has a tragic history when it comes to producing passenger planes, with the last attempt grounded by a lack of engineering expertise and a string of crashes.

A group of Iranian campaigners who were planning to sue the authorities, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for their mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic have been sentenced to prison. The five lawyers and rights defenders were convicted of threatening national security.

A court in the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent has rejected an appeal filed by lawyers of opposition activist Erulan Amirov of a lower court's ruling sentencing him to seven years in prison on terrorism charges.

Protests are continuing across Iran as discontent grows over the government's failure to address deteriorating economic conditions one year after President Ebrahim Raisi's election victory.

Last week, the European Commission recommended that Ukraine and Moldova be granted EU candidate status, while Georgia must fulfill a number of conditions before candidate status can even be considered. At a summit in Brussels on June 23-24, EU leaders will consider all three membership applications.

As it turns out, the cultural and historical complexities at the heart of Sofia's demands on Skopje might be less of an obstacle than internal feuding and brinksmanship.

The Tajik government's deadly response to protests in the country's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region has shocked activists and angered citizens.

A nephew of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is a person of interest in an unspecified criminal case, the deputy chairman of the Committee of National Security (KNB) has said.