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Scores of people paid respects to the first leader of independent Belarus, Stanislau Shushkevich, as his body lay in state at a Minsk church three days after his death. 

Jeremy Corbyn, the former British opposition leader, says the UN and the West should have been tougher on Russian President Vladimir Putin early on, and expanding alliances like NATO isn't "the best way forward."

Iryna Danilovych, an activist who had gained a reputation for defending the rights of medical workers in Crimea, disappeared while returning home from work on April 29. She hasn't been heard from since, and her family and lawyers have had no luck in finding her.

6 day event covers many fields, including strategic communication, public diplomacy, fighting disinformation, digital media, crisis communications.

Russian forces have resumed their assault on a sprawling steel factory in the devastated Ukrainian port of Mariupol, using aircraft to pound Ukrainian fighters holding out there.

A court in Belarus has sentenced the girlfriend of a dissident blogger who was detained after their commercial flight was forced to land in Minsk to six years in prison for inciting social hatred.

Yadier Molina has a chance to join the 1,000-RBI club, and Albert Pujols will get another opportunity to honor Willie Mays when the visiting St. Louis Cardinals

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

While waging a devastating and unprovoked war in Ukraine, Russia prepares to mark the anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat 77 years ago. And the Kremlin's effort to weave its narratives of the two conflicts together rings badly wrong in Kyiv and the West.

In Vladimir Putin's Russia, May 9 has become the most ideologically charged date on the calendar, and this year there's speculation that he might use the Victory Day ceremonies to make major policy announcements about the war in Ukraine.