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Russia continued to ramp up rhetoric against Kyiv as U.S. President Joe Biden held talks with Ukraine's leader and was to offer security reassurances nine eastern European NATO allies amid a Russian military buildup near the Ukrainian border.

Opposition and rights activists in Kazakhstan have come under pressure from authorities a week before the commemoration of Independence Day on December 16, a date that coincides with two sensitive anniversaries in modern Kazakh history.

A semipro wrestler gains renown as Bulgaria's most prominent migrant hunter, patrolling on his quad bike and making citizen's arrests near the border with Turkey. A recent video of him apprehending a group of migrants has raised troubling questions about his relations with the authorities.

Another activist in Belarus has been handed a lengthy prison sentence amid an ongoing crackdown on those who have challenged the official results of last year's presidential election that handed victory to strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka despite opposition claims the balloting was rigged.

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Britain says it will send 140 military engineers to NATO ally Poland this month to provide support at its border with Belarus, where the West says Minsk is orchestrating on ongoing migration crisis.

U.S. President Joe Biden has warned of a “backward slide” in rights and democracy around the globe as he opened a virtual summit with representatives from some 100 countries.

Authoritarian leaders are undermining the media and democratic institutions at the peril of peace, Dmitry Muratov, a joint winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, said on December 9 ahead of the award ceremony in Norway's capital.

A Polish investigation has established that there was “no bomb threat” on a Ryanair plane that made an emergency landing in Minsk earlier this year, allowing Belarusian authorities to arrest opposition blogger Raman Pratasevich and his girlfriend.

The Taliban has been accused of forcibly displacing hundreds of ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen residents in Afghanistan's northern province of Jowzjan. Ethnic Uzbeks and Turkmen say Pashtun nomads have seized their homes and land with the help of the Taliban, a predominately Pashtun group.