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Two More Activists Added To Political Prisoners List In Kazakhstan May 19, 2021 08:08 GMT share Print ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Kazakh human rights organizations have added two activists to a list they keep of political prisoners in the oil-rich Central Asian nation, bringing the total number to 28. The two activists added to the list on May 19 are Nurbol Onerkhan from the North Kazakhstan region and Zhanibek Zhunisov from the capital, Nur-Sultan. Onerkhan was given a parole-like "freedom limitatio...

A prominent Tajik imam has been fired amid complaints that he dragged a worshipper from a mosque and insulted the congregation during Ramadan prayers.

Senior diplomats from multiple countries have reported progress in talks to revive the 2015 accord on Iran’s nuclear weapons and persuade the United States to rejoin the landmark agreement.

A growing photo archive run by an economist, a priest, and a software developer documents the turbulent and fascinating 20th century in Romania.

share Russia says it has Yerevan-Baku tensions over the past week over an alleged Azerbaijani military incursion. Armenia has accused Azerbaijani troops of crossing several kilometers into its Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces and trying to stake a claim to territory. Azerbaijan insists that its troops did not cross into Armenia and simply took up positions on the Azerbaijani side of the frontier that were not accessible in winter months. The border dispute emerged months after the two South Ca...

share Some myths go back millennia. This myth, if it is one, goes back to 1990 -- and just over three decades later, it continues to form a central grievance in Russian President Vladimir Putins testy narrative about Moscows ties with the West. Its the question of NATO expansion -- an unhealed scab that, with Russian-Western relations at their lowest ebb since the Cold War, has been picked off yet again and is now bleeding into public view. Casting the issue into the spotlight this time was not...

Navalny Associates Summoned To Police In Fraud Case May 19, 2021 11:18 GMT Share share Print MOSCOW -- Police in Moscow have summoned dozens of staff members of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalnys Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) as part of an investigation into an alleged fraud case launched against the outspoken Kremlin critic in December 2020. FBK Director Ivan Zhdanov wrote on Telegram that police came to the homes of current and former FBK staff members overnight as they slept, s...

share Print Aeroflot has canceled nearly all flights to Turkey in June in an extension of a suspension of flights imposed last month because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. The airline said on May 17 that the suspension would remain in place pending a decision from the Russian government to resume flights to and from Turkey, a popular tourist destination for Russians. Aeroflot said in a statement that it stopped sales and canceled all flights to Turkey for June except two fligh...

The United States will send millions more COVID-19 vaccines to other countries to help those struggling to get their populations vaccinated, President Joe Biden has announced.

The Battle For Lake Ohrid May 17, 2021 10:52 GMT As UNESCO mulls placing North Macedonia and Albania’s Lake Ohrid on its list of “world heritage in danger,” some illegal shoreline constructions are being torn down while others wait to be “legalized.” 1 A photo from early May of heavy machinery demolishing an illegally built structure on the  Macedonian shore of Lake Ohrid     Lake Ohrid is shared by North Macedonia and Albania and is home to some of Europe’s oldest Slavic churche...