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A freelance journalist who has worked for RFE/RL's Belarus Service has been sentenced to 10 days in jail on hooliganism charges as authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues his crackdown on independent media.

Amnesty has turned to the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples regarding the situation faced by a Yakut shaman who is being held in a psychiatric clinic against his will because of his attempts to march to Moscow to "drive Russian President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin."

Hungary's parliament has passed a resolution authorizing the government to hold a national referendum on LGBT issues, putting the right-wing ruling party further at odds with the European Union and activists who view laws passed earlier this year as discriminatory.

ROME, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (LaPresse) - An extraordinary communication campaign to promote Made in Italy, entitled 'Italy is simply extraordinary: beIT', has been successfully launched. The

Petya suffered years of abuse at the hands of her husband before divorcing him. She is one of many victims of domestic abuse in Bulgaria, but the number is unclear. The government does not tabulate such statistics, underscoring what some say is a failure to take the issue seriously.

A court in Moscow has sentenced an ultraconservative, coronavirus-denying Russian priest who was stripped of his religious rank to 3 1/2 years in prison on charges of vigilantism, violating the right to religious freedom, and encouraging suicide.

Westpay has today signed an agreement with Kicks regarding payment solutions in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. The solution enables card payments as well as Swish, Vipps, Mobile Pay, and other alternative

Brussels is set to announce Global Gateway on December 1, a 300 billion-euro ($340 billion) infrastructure initiative to respond to Beijing. RFE/RL has an early look at the draft for what the EU is planning.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has yet to decide whether to run again when his current term ends in 2024-- an option that was opened for him after the Kremlin pushed through controversial constitutional amendments last year.

Belarus's authoritarian leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has said that his country would be willing to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moved similar U.S. equipment from Germany to Eastern Europe.