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The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved in its third and final reading a controversial bill that would allow the government to regulate the basic pillars of minority languages in the country, including indigenous ethnic groups from Siberia and the Far East.

Oil builds on gains as recovery picks up but equities mixed

The EU investment deal is on ice, vaccine diplomacy in Central Asia, Beijing’s view of Belarus, the end of the 17+1, and Serbia’s drone program.

Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from traveling abroad, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, a move the opposition says is a further step to limit freedoms amid a brutal crackdown on dissent by authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony, a staunch rival of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, says he will rename streets surrounding the future campus of a Chinese university after victims of human rights abuses by Beijing.

Navalnys Request To Cancel His Status As Flight Risk Rejected June 02, 2021 15:02 GMT Share share Print A court in Russias Vladimir region has rejected imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalnys request to annul his designated status as a "flight risk," which subjects him to hourly nighttime checks while he is incarcerated at a penal colony. The court ruled on June 2 that Navalnys right to have eight hours of uninterrupted sleep each night had not been violated by guards at Correctional Col...

A court has ordered the detention of the former executive director of Open Russia, a pro-democracy movement, for two months after he was removed from a Warsaw-bound plane in St. Petersburg just before departure.

The Russian parliament's upper chamber, the Federation Council, has voted to withdraw the country from the Open Skies Treaty allowing surveillance flights over military facilities, following the departure from the accord by the United States late last year.

Russia's upper house has approved a bill that would ban supporters and members of organizations designated as "extremist" from being elected to any post -- a move making it virtually impossible for anyone connected to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to gain public office.

Bogoljub and Dragomir Karic, once close to Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, present themselves as pioneers of capitalism in Eastern Europe and promoters of democracy. Yet they built their fortune cozying up to authoritarian figures -- and may face sanctions for ties to Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus.