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The Kazakh president has proposed reducing the powers of his office and also banning the president’s direct relatives from occupying high-ranking positions in the public sector. But critics dismiss the proposal as a populist move.

How many Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine? Look in the morgues and hospitals of southeastern Belarus for clues.

A court in Russia has sentenced another group of Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms on charges of being members of a banned Islamic group amid an ongoing crackdown on members of the ethnic group.

Russian state television channel Rossia-24 cut away from President Vladimir Putin in mid-sentence as he was delivering a speech to a huge crowd of Muscovites at the Luzhniki sports stadium in the Russian capital.

A former Belarusian professor who was arrested for 15 days for allegedly taking part in an anti-war protest in Minsk says detainees were mistreated, including being crammed into a cold cell.

Police have released Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov after arresting him as part of an EU corruption investigation.

The assembly of Republika Srpska, Bosnia's Serbian entity, has adopted proposals for the central Bosnian parliament on ways to counter economic challenges faced by the country, which is going through its worst political crisis since the end of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

UN diplomats have slammed Belarus for its human rights abuses and for helping Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, accusing Minsk of "widespread and systematic" rights violations since the disputed 2020 presidential election.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has made an impassioned plea to German lawmakers to "tear down" the wall Russia is building to divide Europe with its invasion of Ukraine.

Russian military expert Michael Kofman explains why Russia’s campaign has stalled, how the fog of war persists on the battlefield, and why this is “fundamentally Putin’s war.”