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Speaking from the United Nations General Assembly, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian pushed back against U.S. President...
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Parents in Tbilisi’s Vera neighborhood protested after administrators of Tbilisi Public School No. 21 sent an SMS on 1...
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A United Nations report by Marianna Kacarova warns that federal and Chechen authorities have been using a range of tools...
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Russia's Ministry of Justice announced on 18 September that film director Andrey Zvyagintsev has been designated a "fore...
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Kazakhstan’s recent week combined economic and environmental decisions with mounting human-rights concerns. Authoritie...
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At a conference of religious leaders from the Turkic world, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev denounced the European Pa...
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Employees of state-funded institutions in several Russian regions say they are being pressured by employers to vote in p...
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Ayrat Dilmukhametov, a 60-year-old Bashkort publicist and political activist, was released from a strict-regime penal co...
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek, coinciding with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit, h...
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Taher Sharan, an Afghan physicist and former head of Afghanistan's Atomic Energy High Commission, has been elected a lif...
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A former member of Tajikistan’s OMON special police, Asomuddin Rajabov, has told RFE/RL that Tajik authorities have su...
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Local authorities in the Teykh‑Martan area have filed an administrative protocol accusing a Chechen‑language news si...
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Kazakhstan’s newly formed unicameral parliament, the Kurultai, to...
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An İzmir court has rejected an appeal seeking the conditional release of Mehmet Sait Yıldırım, ruling that the priso...
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In a new Turkish translation of Renata Salecl’s Kabalık Çağı (The Age of Rudeness), the Slovenian thinker argues t...
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Reports that the executive secretary of the Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union, Əli İsa Cabbarov—recognized for suppo...
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A 46-page circular from Turkey’s Ministry of National Education has drawn criticism for focusing on directives that ob...
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Ten years after the death of Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, the country continues to grapple with the le...
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Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, has condemned public praise of Ratko Mladić...
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A new report by the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) covering mid‑March to mid‑August 2026 finds th...
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Aruna Ortaeva, a prominent opponent of plans to build a ski resort at Kok-Zhailau near Almaty, has been placed under adm...
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Farit Zakiev, head of the Tatar Public Center, staged a picket at Place de la République in Paris to mark the 30 August...
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Denis Kulanin, a Russian citizen who was pardoned by President Mikheil Kavelashvili after serving time for actions durin...
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A browser extension developed in Ufa by Bashkir IT specialist Айгиз Кунафин can automatically render spoken...
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Observers from the OSCE’s election monitoring bodies concluded that Kazakhstan’s Kurultai elections were held withou...
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During visits to Karabakh, President Ilham Aliyev has met with children who asked him for a KamAZ truck or a tractor, an...
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Azattyq’s Instagram account was reinstated on August 24 after a suspension four days earlier that coincided with the r...
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After the collapse of Afghanistan’s republic in August 2021, Afghan writers, poets and artists dispersed across Europe...
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Members of the DEM Parti İmralı delegation and İmralı Secretariat met with journalists in Istanbul on 19 August to d...
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A Kazakh-language novelist and satirist from China’s Xinjiang region, Женис Ырысканулы, has been held s...
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Copies of Lasha Bughadze’s recent novel and other books by the author were discovered with phallic drawings on their f...
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The Supreme Court in Moscow on August 17 began considering an appeal by the opposition party «Яблоко» against a...
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A Russian appeals court on August 14 upheld a 12-year prison term for Ufa journalist Olga Komleva, who was convicted of...
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On August 17, 2026, the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan fully acquitted activist Mirlanbek Maratbek uulu of allegations that...
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Kosovo police escorted Bosnian Islamic preacher Elvedin Peziq to a Pristina station for questioning and identity verific...
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Former Orda.kz editor Gulnar Bazhkenova told an Almaty district court she does not accept the criminal charges lodged ag...
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At least two prominent Kyrgyz social media accounts that criticize the government have reported coordinated waves of cop...
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Two U.S. congressmen, who co-chair the Bipartisan Congressional Bosnia Caucus, have expressed serious concern after 26 c...
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The European Union's 2025 annual report on human rights and democracy concluded that Uzbekistan experienced a broad roll...
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On August 10, the Supreme Court of Russia annulled the federal registration of the opposition party Yabloko for the upco...
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A Tatar-language comic book produced in Kazan, "Tatar hatyn-kyzlary / Tatar Women," has been selected for the IBBY–UNE...
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On August 10, Russia's Supreme Court disqualified the liberal Yabloko party from participating in parliamentary election...
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YouTube has taken down the main and backup channels of the nationalist movement "Урыс җәмгыяте" ("Русск...
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Minsk City Court has handed down an in absentia four-year sentence to Belarusian musician Siarhei Mikhalok, finding that...
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Ethnic Azerbaijani activists in Iran say little has changed for their mother tongue two years after Məsud Pezeşkian’...
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A Moscow court has convicted journalist Darya Shipachyova of treason and handed her a 12-year prison term after finding...
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Friends, relatives and rights defenders say they have not had any contact with 59-year-old activist Andrey Trofimov sinc...
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Lithuania's Foreign Ministry has proposed a package of amendments to the country's sanctions law that would bar certain...
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Tajikistan has stepped up efforts to regulate citizens' clothing and appearance, targeting Islamic head scarves and men'...
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Hundreds of people attended a Belarusian-language funeral mass in Warsaw and a subsequent public farewell at the Museum...
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Kazakh Culture and Information Minister Aida Balaeva said satire itself is not illegal but defended the application of A...
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Human rights organisation Memorial reports that Zarema Musaev, a 56-year-old Chechen opposition activist linked to the Y...
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A Kirov district court in Ufa has fined 70-year-old activist Fayma Gazizova 10,000 rubles for taking part in a July 3 pi...
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An English teacher who has been openly critical of Azerbaijan’s ruling family told a Baku court that he has been held...
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Residents of Novosibirsk collected 50,000 rubles to welcome 70-year-old Таһир Арсланов after his release fr...
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A Medeu district court in Almaty on July 14 found civic activist Айжан Мамешова guilty of “deliberately s...
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A regional media outlet says Novaya Gazeta has published comments by Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov accusing Chechen lead...
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Tensions have arisen during a phased integration following a January ceasefire between the Syrian Interim Government and...
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At its annual session in The Hague the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution describing Belarus under Alexand...
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Human Rights Watch has called on Germany to investigate the June 20 deportation of Tajik opposition activist Asadullo Bo...
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Russian prosecutors have requested a prison sentence of one year and ten months for singer Elizaveta Gyrdymova, known as...
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held a one-on-one and expanded meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilh...
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A Tbilisi court fined pro-Western activist Tamuna Giorgadze 3,000 lari for a social media post about Georgian Dream foun...
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Police in the city of Oral detained independent Kazakh journalist Лұқпан Ахмедияров on June 22 after inf...
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A recent Central Election Commission (MSK) report that allocates state budget funds to opposition parties REAL and Müsa...
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A German court has given Tajik activist Asadullo Boboev until July 1 to show he would face persecution if deported to Ta...
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European Council President António Costa has held brief, informal diplomatic contacts with Russian leadership to try to...
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Ina Kuley, a civic activist and the wife of former presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich, appears on the latest e...
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A Russian-born artist known for publicly criticizing Vladimir Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov and Alexander Lukashenko was killed...
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Local rights activists report that approximately 15 men from Russia’s Stavropol region have been detained in an invest...
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An investigative court in Almaty on June 12 extended the pretrial detention of activist and civic journalist Sanjar Boka...
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Since the Taliban regained power in August 2021, thousands of Afghan civil servants—particularly women—have lost the...
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United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told Newsmax that the Department of Justice is...
