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Moldova has rejected a Russian request for polling stations in the breakaway Transdniester region, another sign that countries on Russia's periphery are committed to countering Kremlin influence.
EU-wide sanctions should have blocked easy access to the websites of two key Kremlin media outlets that the bloc says are spreading propaganda and disinformation. But RFE/RL's Balkan Service discovers that the websites are still accessible.
After decades looking the other way, the Kosovar Central Bank announced a two-week deadline for tens of thousands of Serbs to abandon the dinar -- and their reliance on backdoor funding from Belgrade.
Lenders owned by autocratic Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's family have increased their share of the banking sector's assets nearly threefold to 43 percent since 2015, when the government carried out crippling devaluations of the national currency, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
Kosovars' unofficial over-the-counter approach and seemingly chronic overuse of antibiotics risks contributing to Europe and the world's mounting problem of antimicrobial resistance.