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A court in Russia's Vladimir region has rejected imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s request to annul his designated status as "a terrorist and extremist."

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on Ukrainians to stay calm and united as the government and leaders around the world pursue efforts to ward off a possible invasion by Russia, which has amassed tens of thousands of soldiers along the border.

More than 2,000 Russian intellectuals, including prominent rights activists, have urged the Kremlin to avoid starting an "immoral, irresponsible, and criminal" war against Ukraine amid global concerns that Moscow may be on the verge of launching a wide-scale invasion of its western neighbor. 

Human Rights Watch has called on Kazakh authorities to thoroughly investigate all torture allegations and end abuses of activists and others "arbitrarily" detained during and after a wave of deadly unrest swept across the Central Asian country last month.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the "immediate" de-escalation and withdrawal of troops by Russia from areas near Ukraine's borders.

A Kazakh activist is facing prison after airing last month's anti-government protests live on Facebook. She denies charges of attacking government officials and buildings, saying she joined the protests to "let officials know" about the plight of people.

Researchers believe that climate change has caused multiple factors to come into play that is causing adult moose in Minnesota to be dying off.

One of the founders of the Committee Against Torture says his mother has been targeted for intimidation because of his recent public condemnation of the "abduction" of the mother of one of the Russian human rights group's lawyers from her apartment in Nizhny Novgorod by Chechen police.

A leading independent journalist in Kyrgyzstan says police planted drugs on him as retribution for his exposés of corruption. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s how sex, lies, and secret surveillance were deployed against one of the country’s top investigative outlets.

Russia's core European security proposals delivered to the West at the end of last year represent a slippery slope toward a new, dangerous world order, a senior U.S. official said.