Representative Bill Keating News Today

A survey of the Massachusetts delegation raises doubts that campaigns are ready for the challenges presented by artificial intelligence.

An investigative report by RFE/RL's Belarus Service says oligarch Alyaksey Aleksin, who is closely linked to the country’s authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has built an opulent residence named the "Family Nest" on the shores of the Zaslauskaye water reservoir near Minsk.

Police in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan have searched the home and office of noted independent journalist Iskander Siradzhi.

The regional assembly of Serbia's autonomous region of Vojvodina dissolved itself on November 16 and announced that early regional elections will be held on December 17 together with nationwide early parliamentary and local elections.

A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Peterburg, has sentenced Aleksandra Skochilenko, a 33-year-old Russian artist, to seven years in prison for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. Treasury on November 16 imposed a broad set of sanctions on eight people and six entities across the Balkans accused of “perpetuating corruption and enabling Russian malign influence” in the region.

The Kyrgyz State Committee of National Security has detained journalist Guljan Sheripbaeva for at least 48 hours on unspecified charges.

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on three maritime companies based in the United Arab Emirates and vessels owned by the companies for shipping Russian oil sold above a price cap imposed to reduce the amount of oil revenue Moscow has to fund its war in Ukraine.

The United States is preparing a comprehensive and transparent report on what happened in Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of Azerbaijan’s offensive in September, a U.S. State Department official told a congressional hearing on November 15. 

"At some point, they’ll have a story to tell, a really important story and a lens, frankly, to the suffering happening on the ground in Gaza,” the lawyer for the family said.