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EU Says Russian Foreign Agent Law Stifling Independent Media, Calls For Repeal May 17, 2021 12:41 GMT Journalists work at RFE/RLs bureau in Moscow. The EU said the "foreign agent" and other laws "have the clear intention to hamper RFE/RLs operations in Russia as part of a wider trend to stifle independent media and critical voices in the country." Share share Print The European Union has called on Russia to repeal its controversial "foreign agent" law, which has been used to target a growing nu...

1 A woman holds a portrait of her father near candles commemorating the 45,000 victims of COVID-19 during a protest demanding the resignation of Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov in front of the parliament building in Kyiv on May 17. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich) 3 A driver is seen inside a car before the Russian Weekend Drags races of U.S. retro and muscle cars in Bykovo outside Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov) 4 Street vendors sell clothes and flowers near a block of flats with a mural depi...

share Print BUCHAREST -- In late April, the Washington National Cathedral unveiled a stone carving of Holocaust survivor and longtime political activist Elie Wiesel to honor his legacy as an international human rights defender. But in the Nobel laureates birthplace of Romania, Nazi-allied leader Marshal Ion Antonescu -- a man who sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths -- has streets named after him. There are, in fact, at least 17 places in the country with streets, busts, or instit...

Grandmother Raises An Orphan Of Islamic State, As Kazakhs Confront Reintegration Question May 17, 2021 15:59 GMT Share share Print ORAL CITY, Kazakhstan -- At 13, Asan is at least three years older than his fourth-grade classmates. But age isnt the biggest difference between Asan and the others at his Russian-language public school in Oral, in northwest Kazakhstan. Asan was repatriated from Syria two years ago and is still making a gradual transition to life in peacetime, under the watchful eye...

Danone Picks Industry Veteran To Replace Ousted CEO 05/17/21 AT 1:04 PM French food and beverages giant Danone said Monday that it had named a new CEO to replace Emmanuel Faber, who was ousted by the board in March over complaints that his focus on social responsibility was holding back the companys profitability. His replacement, Antoine de Saint-Affrique, currently the head of the Swiss chocolate group Barry Callebaut, has spent the bulk of his career at the food and consumer goods conglomera...

Amnesty International has marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex-phobia, and Transphobia by renewing its calls on Iran to repeal laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations.

Moscow Refuses To Allow Sakharov Centenary Exhibition May 17, 2021 18:44 GMT Share share Print MOSCOW -- City authorities have refused to approve a public exhibition marking the centenary of the late Russian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. Proposed by the Moscow Sakharov Center, the exhibition was titled Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov: Anxiety and Hope. It was planned to open on May 17, four days ahead of Sakharovs 100th birthday, as a series of street displa...

Alyaksandr Lukashenka will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month as the Belarusian strongman faces growing isolation from the West over his crackdown on peaceful protesters.

share Print Since Shavkat Mirziyoev took over as Uzbekistan’s leader in September 2016, the Uzbek government has been saying the country is no longer the repressive state that first President Islam Karimov ruled over for 25 years. Uzbek authorities say reforms are under way and there is a new respect in the country for basic rights and freedoms. But in May, Uzbekistan’s judicial system seemed to return to practices not seen since Karimov was alive. One blogger was imprisoned for 6 1/2 years...

A top Ukrainian official did not exclude the possibility of a prisoner swap with Russia if a Kyiv court convicts a Kremlin-leaning politician of treason.