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Only Seven Candidates Approved For Irans June Presidential Vote May 25, 2021 07:36 GMT Share share Print An Iranian hard-line constitutional watchdog has approved seven candidates to run in next months presidential election amid reports several high-profile candidacies were disqualified from running. State television quoted the spokesman of the Guardians Council on May 25 as saying "only" seven candidates had been approved out of some 590 who registered by the panel overseen by Supreme Leader A...

One day after his dramatic arrest at a Minsk airport, Belarusian blogger Raman Pratasevich appeared in a video and admitted to inciting mass unrest. But his shaken look and signs of possible mistreatment harked back to forced confessions that remain common in parts of the former U.S.S.R.

Court bailiffs have again searched the offices of RFE/RL’s Moscow bureau and Current Time -- photographing computers and other editorial equipment they’ve threatened to seize over unpaid fines imposed under Russia’s controversial “foreign agents” law.

Monster Rancher (1997) What are you catching? CDs… or maybe the monsters that live inside CDs? (Or “Mystery Discs,” as they’re termed in the game’s mythology.) Either way, you get new collectible creatures in Tecmo’s Monster Rancher by popping out the PlayStation disc and replacing it with something from your CD collection. The game then scans the disc’s metadata and somehow generates a monster from that information, with certain kinds of CDs generating special kinds of monsters...

Russia Gives Google One Day To Delete Banned Content May 24, 2021 14:42 GMT Detained protesters are escorted by police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in St. Petersburg on January 31. A series of massive anti-government rallies actively promoted on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok ushered in an intensified push to fine-tune the online censorship apparatus. Share share Print Russias communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has given Google 2...

A Murmansk fisherman has snagged a vast social-media following by photographing fearsome creatures of the deep.

RFE/RL spoke to U.S. Representative Chris Smith after a passenger jet was forced to land in Belarus and journalist Raman Pratasevich was detained. Smith called for tougher measures to isolate Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his enablers, saying he needs to get the message, "You're done."

No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 Much of the international community reacted with shock and fury to the news of the forced landing of the Ryanair plane on a scheduled flight from Athens to Vilnius. Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EUs executive European Commission, said Pratasevich must be released immediately and that those responsible for "the Ryanair hijacking must be sanctioned," adding EU leaders meeting in Brussels on May 24 would discuss what action to take. As Euro...

After the Belarusian security services allegedly "hijacked" a passenger plane that journalist Raman Pratasevich was traveling in and forced it to land in Minsk on May 23, he reportedly told fellow passengers: "They will execute me here."

1 A boat carrying Red Star Belgrades players cruises on the Sava River as fans of the club celebrate their team winning the Serbian soccer league title in the capital on May 22.  2 Participants in the "Distinguished Gentlemans Ride," a vintage-motorcycle charity event, ride their bikes through the streets of Skopje, North Macedonia, on May 23.  3 Girls wearing traditional outfits (and not so traditional footwear) rest during a Catholic pilgrimage attended by tens of thousands in Sumuleu Ciuc,...