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Russian forces launched a wave of overnight strikes across Ukraine on the night of 22–23 September, hitting Kyiv, Zapo...
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European Commission officials described a brief encounter between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and EU Commission...
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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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Since 2024 successive laws and administrative measures have battered Georgia’s independent civil society, forcing many...
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Relatives of Kyrgyz citizens detained in Iraq on charges linked to the Islamic State are renewing appeals for repatriati...
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Kyrgyz migrants working in Moscow posted videos of burning facilities and explosions after a broad Ukrainian drone strik...
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Regional Ukrainian officials reported that Russian strikes across several regions on September 19 killed six civilians a...
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Marsho Radio reports that German authorities carried out raids on the morning of the 14th resulting in detentions of peo...
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Debris from a Russian strike drone fell on a private property in Kyiv’s Dnipro district, igniting a domestic outbuildi...
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Arif Güran, whose daughter Narin was found dead in 2024 after a disappearance in Diyarbakır, has begun a march to Anka...
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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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A passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region was struck in what officials say was a Russian attack, killing a 40-year...
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Russia has scheduled State Duma voting for 18–20 September on its own territory and on Ukrainian lands it occupies, in...
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Iva Vukushiq, a historian at Utrecht University and expert on trials arising from the wars in the former Yugoslavia, tol...
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Late on Wednesday a section of the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) compound in Pristina was briefly engulfed in a small f...
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International and hybrid courts seated in The Hague have issued a combined 128 years of prison sentences against ethnic...
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Defense lawyers for four former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders have said they will appeal convictions issued by the S...
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People displaced from Nochi in the 1990s remain in limbo despite recognition by regional authorities and multiple federa...
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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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Mansur Movlaev, a Chechen national, has been placed in pretrial detention in a Kazakhstan detention centre after being h...
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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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Russia's Ministry of Justice has added seven organisations based in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom to...
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Organizers of the Zion Festival in Tbilisi reversed an initial decision to bar all Russian citizens from attending, sayi...
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The Lahore High Court has temporarily halted an order by Pakistan’s medical regulator that instructed Afghan students...
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On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out deadly attacks in the United States, killing roughly 3,000 people in a singl...
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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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Alexander Kondratov, a production designer who worked on the award-winning 2007 series "Likvidatsiya," was detained in M...
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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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Dozens of parents and relatives of children diagnosed with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (ПСПЭ) gathered at th...
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Azerbaijan violated Article 3 of the European Convention by subjecting...
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A Chechen woman has publicly appealed to the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee after saying she was refused com...
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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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Drone attacks on Wildberries logistics sites beginning 18 July have wiped out inventory belonging to sellers from Kyrgyz...
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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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Austria, Germany, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands have agreed to develop a unified model for centres to hold migrant...
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Humanitarian and human rights concerns mounted across Afghanistan and the region on multiple fronts: the UN recorded 30...
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Interior ministers from Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands said they have agreed to pursue agreements...
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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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A new report by the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) covering mid‑March to mid‑August 2026 finds th...
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Operating from three Soviet-era Yak-52 propeller planes donated by a Dutch NGO, Ukrainian aircrews are using open cockpi...
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Kazakhstan formally signed a contract on September 3 with Russia’s Atomstroyexport (a Rosatom subsidiary) to design, s...
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President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree naming Aida Balaeva as deputy chair of Kazakhstan's Security Council...
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From his cell in Edirne Prison, former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş sent a handwritten message wishing success to S...
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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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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has accused the Hague tribunal of wanting Ratko Mladić to die in custody rather th...
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Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović said on August 28 that expressions of sympathy toward the family of the late Hagu...
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President Ilham Aliyev has previously described European Union membership for Azerbaijan as impossible, saying that acce...
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Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide in Srebrenica and multiple other crimes during the 1992–...
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The U.S. State Department announced on August 25 that it is offering a combined $18 million through its Rewards for Just...
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A forest fire burning in the mountains above Yalta has entered its eighth day, with Russian emergency services saying op...
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Investigators in Kazakhstan have completed the probe into former Russian Orthodox cleric Iakov (Vladimir) Vorontsov, and...
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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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A July 2024 law that raised state and consular fees has made renunciation of Russian citizenship far more expensive, whi...
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For two weeks the Ruzvai near-border market in Tajikistan’s Darvoz district has remained shut after heavy fighting in...
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A recent Russian law and government decisions have dramatically raised the costs for citizens who wish to give up Russia...
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On 23 August Norway announced it will allocate 85 billion Norwegian kroner (about $9.2 billion) to Ukraine in 2027, matc...
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Ukrainian officials said a Russian drone hit a commuter train stopped at Limanovka station on the Lozova–Kharkiv route...
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Ramush Haradinaj has called for the 11th legislature of Kosovo to restore Hashim Thaçi to the presidency, describing it...
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Imprisoned ex-prime minister Irakli Gharibashvili has published letters he says show he was offered a plea deal in excha...
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Since early 2026 independent journalists and newsrooms in Kazakhstan have faced a sustained, coordinated campaign of dig...
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A large-scale Russian attack using rockets and drones overnight on Aug. 19–20 struck Kyiv and the surrounding region,...
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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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Since the start of the year, Belarusian officials have refused to renew permits for around 20 Polish Catholic priests, f...
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Irakli Gharibashvili, Georgia’s jailed former prime minister, and his wife published a photograph of a letter they say...
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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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Dozens of members of the Chechen diaspora gathered in Bern on March 18 to protest what they described as German authorit...
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Ukraine’s prosecutor general announced on 18 August that ten military personnel attached to a district territorial rec...
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A St. Petersburg court has handed a 360‑hour compulsory work sentence in absentia to Alexander Voronov, former executi...
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Residents and anonymous witnesses told Azatlyk that on August 12 authorities transported hundreds of public-sector emplo...
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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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On August 17, 2026, the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan fully acquitted activist Mirlanbek Maratbek uulu of allegations that...
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Five years after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, many young people say their ambitions and daily free...
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Turkish police carried out a multi‑province operation that led to the arrest of 30 people, including the leader of the...
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Russian authorities say a fresh exchange of bodies took place with Ukraine, with Moscow reporting that 261 bodies were h...
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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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Pakistan’s foreign ministry confirmed that three Pakistani citizens were killed and one wounded in an attack on a comm...
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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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Czech authorities’ deportations of Chechens to Russia have provoked alarm from lawyers, activists and diaspora communi...
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Early on 10 August, drone attacks struck the industrial city of Tüben Kama (Nizhnekamsk) in Russia’s Tatarstan, killi...
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Uzbekistan’s consulate in Kazan has confirmed that seven Uzbek citizens died in a drone attack on Nizhnekamsk in the R...
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Explosions rocked the oil and petrochemical hub of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan on the morning of August 10, in w...
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Two men convicted in the "Baymak case" were released from a Perm penal colony at the end of July after serving their sen...
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High-resolution satellite imagery released by imagery firm Vantor reveals damage to warehouses operated by Wildberries,...
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An analysis published in Yeni Yaşam contends that Turkey’s ruling coalition under President Erdoğan has formed a
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President Donald Trump told Fox News that if Iran does not agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz "soon," Tehran would fac...
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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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Between 1985 and 2014 Turkey enacted at least eleven laws intended to encourage defections, punish or rehabilitate comba...
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Iranian judiciary-run media said two men, Omid Behzad and Puria Safvat, were hanged on August 3 after being convicted of...
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Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces recorded 207 combat engagements over the previous day, with the most intensive...
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Sergey Krinitsky spent 346 days holding a frontline trench in what his commanders described as a "килл-зоне," en...
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Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Ukraine during the night of August 2, deploying 133 unmanned aerial vehic...
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On 1 August, warehouses of the Ukrainian publishing corporation RNK‑Ranok in Kharkiv were hit in an attack that ignite...
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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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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio told Fox News that Washington will step up efforts in the coming weeks to determine whether neg...
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Drone attacks on Friday set fire to energy and logistics facilities in Russia’s Volgograd region and left five people...
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Several former Afghan military officers living in Iran say their situation has deteriorated as Iranian authorities tight...
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Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been held in Edirne Prison for more than ten years, will meet with Arif Güran, father of...
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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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A UNAMA quarterly report covering April–June 2026 finds continued, systemic restrictions on the rights of women and gi...
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Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin announced on July 28 that two people injured in earlier Russian attacks hav...
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A group calling itself the 'Government of Tatarstan in Exile' organized an event on July 25 as part of Captive Nations W...
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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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Government data show 3,480 calls related to domestic violence were made to the Labour, Social Security and Migration Min...
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Sevastopol experienced near-total power failure in the early hours of July 27 after what local authorities said were nig...
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Katerina Kolmîkova, who fled the siege of Mariupol and rebuilt a new life and shop in Kyiv, had her store and warehouse...
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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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Sixteen people are facing charges over January protests in Isfahan that left a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Gu...
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President Donald Trump said the United States and Iran are still negotiating to end their confrontation and that Iranian...
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On July 24, Russian forces conducted rocket and drone attacks on Ukraine’s Odesa region, injuring a woman and a child...
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Pakistan has rejected a detailed Amnesty International report concluding that a March airstrike on the Omid addiction tr...
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European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said representatives of Serbian civil society have been subjected to sme...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 22 that he spoke with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, representativ...
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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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Tajikistan has released 8,008 prisoners under a new amnesty law signed by President Emomali Rahmon on June 16, 2026. Jus...
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Ilyas Kagirmanov, a Chechen national, was detained at an Austrian airport and, activists say, transferred for extraditio...
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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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Sergey Kravtsov, Russia's minister of education, told an expanded meeting at the International Children's Centre Artek t...
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Tajikistan’s justice minister announced that 8,008 people have been released from prisons under a new amnesty law sign...
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The sixth Tutaka festival, held in the Baryk forest in Poland, unfolded under heavy rain and a new paid admission model...
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A strike on a postal terminal in the Kharkiv suburbs on July 19 killed three men and injured 20 others, regional head Ol...
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A Crimean Tatar political prisoner serving an 18-year sentence in a Russian colony has developed new medical problems in...
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A video report from Настоящее время, produced by Радіо Свобода, documents life in Kramatorsk a...
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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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Taliban security officials in Badakhshan province said an armed group attacked the district headquarters of Yiftal Payin...
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Polish migration authorities have been increasingly rejecting applications for refugee status and subsidiary protection...
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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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Russian authorities told media that Moscow has handed over 501 bodies of deceased servicemen to Ukraine while receiving...
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power, many Afghan families now depend on money sent by relatives abroad to cov...
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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 United Nations human rights monitoring mission has reported that June 2026 saw the highest monthly civilian death toll...
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Most programme brought together Rade Veljanovski and Oliver Tošković to probe the ap...
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Local administrations in multiple Russian regions have issued or circulated instructions asking schoolteachers to serve...
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Authorities in Kherson said Russian forces carried out multiple drone strikes on July 12 that killed a 48-year-old man a...
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A new compilation of reports and an expert analysis by the Sova team, published via Marsho Radio, documents a pattern of...
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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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After two nights of reciprocal strikes between U.S. and Iranian forces, the Middle East was relatively calm on Friday ev...
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A Pechersky District Court in Kyiv has ordered that Vitalii Zhykovych be held in pre-trial detention without the possibi...
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Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes Russia is ready to reach an agreemen...
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has publicly asked the United States not to proceed with selling F‑35 fighte...
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told military graduates on July 6 that he would not send Belarusian soldiers t...
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Kadyrbek Atambaev, detained since November 2025 and a leader of the Social Democrats party, has written from custody acc...
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Syrian state media announced on July 5 that Damascus is expecting a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, describin...
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Iran has launched what officials call one of the largest and most complex funerals in its history: a five-day procession...
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A court in Pristina has sentenced Ekrem Bajroviq to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty in a retrial for crimes...
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Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said a Russian strike on the Sofiivska co...
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 3 that emergency rescuers were working at three strike sites in Kyiv after Rus...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on July 2 that Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Securit...
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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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Hudson Institute fellow Mary Kissel warns that recent missile exchanges and incidents in the Strait of Hormuz are strain...
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Lithuania’s Seimas voted unanimously to denounce a 2010 agreement with Belarus on local border traffic that never ente...
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June 30 has marked a series of widely varied events over more than a century, from the opening of tram services in Viteb...
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June 29 is remembered in Belarusian historical chronicles for a severe act of mass repression and for the loss of a jour...
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A Russian airstrike on June 15 gutted the costume collection at the National Film Studio Dovzhenko, reducing an estimate...
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The Taliban in Herat has escalated enforcement of a June directive requiring a 'proper hijab,' detaining and publicly be...
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Abdulla Mamatkulov, the hokim of Muzrabat district in Surkhandarya region, received a formal reprimand after an audio re...
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A five-member Taliban delegation led by Qahar Balkhi traveled to Brussels for talks with European officials about the po...
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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is under pressure to ensure Minsk does not become a direct participant in the...
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Natalya Belitser, an 87‑year‑old biologist and long‑time human rights expert, has died in Kyiv. Belitser was a cen...
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An anti-government activist from the western Georgian city of Zugdidi, Shalva Esartia, has been released after entering...
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A large fire broke out at the Sadovod wholesale-and-retail complex in Moscow in the night of June 18, during a wave of d...
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Mohammad‑Emin Gatajazev, identified in local reporting as a Galgaychura activist, was detained in Croatia under circum...
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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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Artur Denisultanov — a convicted criminal who was at various times portrayed in media reports as a personal killer ass...
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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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A resolution by Croatia’s radical-right Domovinski pokret seeks to reshape political representation of Croats in Bosni...
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A bus carrying Belarusian children to a seaside training camp in Russia was struck on June 17 in the Bryansk region, kil...
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Ukrainian military officials said Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and around 132 strike unmann...
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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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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has offered to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G7 summit...
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Tajikistan has enacted an updated official List of National Tajik Names that removes 1,745 names and adds 965 more, brin...
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On June 14, Hikmət Hacıyev, an aide to the President of Azerbaijan, and Armen Qriqoryan, secretary of Armenia’s Secu...
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Russian forces struck a light‑industry enterprise in Dnipro on the morning of 14 June, damaging buildings and producti...
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After an influential Pakistani announcement that a US–Iran memorandum was close to completion, hopes of a near-term ag...
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Kazan authorities say roughly 60,000 migrants arrived in the city during the first five months of this year, with about...
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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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Mеerim Uzakbaeva, daughter of former agriculture minister and ex-ambassador Emilbek Uzakbaev, has declared a hunger str...
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The trial of Serbia’s culture minister, Nikola Selaković, and three other state officials resumed on June 10 at the S...
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In a moving personal tribute, an older comrade recalls the life, activism and companionship of Dilan — a younger woman...
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More than half a dozen detainees held at Florida’s tented immigration facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” told...
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Amnesty International Canada has publicly called for meaningful Black representation on the federal council on equality...
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In a rare and broadly political speech to Spain’s parliament, Pope Leo warned that escalating conflict, deepening pola...
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is converting warehouses into detention centers under a sweeping plan that would dra...
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As governments and conservative movements intensify efforts to restrict gender rights worldwide, LGBTQ+ communities, wom...
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At the Annual General Meeting in Stockholm on 26 May, Civil Rights Defenders unanimously re-elected Hanna Gerdes as Chai...
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June 4 marks the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, an event the People’s Republic of China continues...
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Israel has instituted a law allowing the death penalty for anyone who intentionally causes a person’s death with the a...
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Christian communities across Nigeria continue to face systematic killings, mass kidnappings and forced conversions by Is...
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Iran war breaks UN Charter, strike on school shocking, UN probe says
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"What Happened Between 4:00 and 6:00 AM on 03.05.2026. The Iran War in Two Hours"
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Hundreds of Iranians cross border into Turkey, witness says
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Belarus, issued rare invitation to Board of Peace, says it received no visas
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Kremlin says main Ukraine issues will be discussed in Geneva talks, including territory
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European allies say Navalny was poisoned by dart frog toxin; Russia rejects claims
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Tunisia extends state of emergency by 11 months until Dec 31
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Mexico seeks to avoid US tariffs on states shipping oil to Cuba
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Rohingya survivors expect UN's highest court to find Myanmar committed genocide
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UN chief 'deeply concerned' by escalation of violence in South Sudan, spokesperson says
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Prominent Activist Warns of Regime “Scorched Earth” Strategy
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HRW reports Georgia authorities arbitrarily detaining and harassing peaceful demonstrators
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Iran's crackdown has killed at least 6,159 people, activists say
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OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov reportedly detained in Baku for ‘treason’
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Russian couple accused of being Kremlin spies go on trial in Poland
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Court jails man who killed Russian chemical weapons chief at Ukraine's behest for life
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Thousands rally in Serbia as students vow to continue fight against corruption
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Leader of movement “defending Polish border” from German migrant transfers to stand trial
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Iran's government offers dialogue as protests spread to universities
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Protests erupt in Iran over currency’s plunge to record low
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Panic Spreads Across Russian Blogger Channels as Ukraine Strikes Back
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German Police Investigate Belarusian Ex-Prison Guard Accused Of Beating Inmates
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Released Belarus prisoners have no regrets over their actions
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Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski describes Belarus prison ordeal in first interview after release
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Russian Fears Being Sent To Fight In Native Ukraine If Extradited From Serbia
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Read, Don't Wipe! Turkmenistan Tells Citizens Not To 'Soil' State Newspapers
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Leading Azerbaijani Opposition Figure Missing After Raids By Security Services
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They can't crush our protests, vow Georgians after year of resistance
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LGBT Activists in Almaty Speak Out Against Proposed “Propaganda” Ban
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Politician Azimbek Beknazarov was released on his own recognizance. His associates reported on social media. The invest...
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Georgian Opposition Seeks Big Protests But Election Boycott Highlights Divisions
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Nearly a year after the start of the protests — sparked by the deadly collapse of the canopy of a railway station in n...
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A freed political prisoner refuses to be deported from Belarus and promptly vanishes
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Tajik Man Dies In Detention Amid Crackdown On Islam
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Bulgaria protests: Why did Gen Z turn out in record numbers?
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Iran Expands Penalties For Espionage Amid Surge In Executions
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Uzbekistan Moves to Ban Photographing People Without Consent
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Who’s Who In The Fractured Russian Opposition Fighting Against Putin – Analysis
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Putin says Russian air defenses were to blame for Azerbaijani jet's crash last year, killing 38
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Five Georgia opposition leaders charged with ‘coup’ attempt after protests
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According to the Serbian authorities, the suspects were allegedly trained by another suspect, 'acting under the instruct...
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Rights organization condemns sentencing of Kyrgyzstan media workers
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Iran Targets Women Activists on Protest Movement Anniversary
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Catholic Journalist in Belarus Released After 5 Years in Prison
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Iran’s Supreme Court upholds death sentence for labor activist
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Belarus targets dozens of government critics with raids and detention, advocates say
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Belarus: Journalist formerly jailed for work with RFE/RL recounts prison conditions as "inhumane"
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Georgia cracks down on civil servants amid anti-government dissent
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Thousands gather to protest as Zelenskyy signs bill weakening anti-corruption agencies
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Azerbaijan And Syria In A Plot Against Iran Tehran Thinks So.
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Bulgaria’s Euro Adoption Divides Public
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New big anti-government protest in Serbia: Police detain dozens of people
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Massive anti-government protest in Serbia's capital leads to dozens of arrests
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Journalists sentenced to prison in Azerbaijan media crackdown
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Jailed Iranian-American journalist criticizes state media protest coverage
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Georgia arrests second opposition figure in days as ruling party faces more protests
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Kyrgyzstan: Whistleblower Convicted for Exposing Corruption in Court System
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Mother of Chechen activists ordered to remain in pretrial detention despite ailing health
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Hundreds of Armenians on Wednesday took to the streets of the capital Yerevan in a fresh protest against government plan...
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Authorities in Belarus opened a criminal case against a 78-year-old activist who became the face of the country’s pro-...
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Georgia’s Identity Crisis and Public Protests
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Kyrgyzstan: Rights Defender Detained
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Romania: Dangerous Rollback of Reproductive Rights
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'I've Been Detained, Don't Text Me': How An RFE/RL Journalist Reported Undercover In Crimea
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Protests roil Romania's capital after far-right Georgescu barred from presidential election redo
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Trump Administration Secures Release of Radio Liberty Journalist Andrey Kuznechyk from Detention in Belarus
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Georgian police arrest opposition leaders at pro-EU protest
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BULGARIA'S FORGOTTEN CAMPAIGN TO WIPE OUT TURKISH NAMES
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Belarusians protest in Warsaw against re-election of Lukashenko
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Tajik journalist Ahmad Ibrohim sentenced to 10 years in prison
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Uzbek Authorities Keeping Tabs On Family Of Suspect In Russian General's Killing
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A report found that Serbia’s intelligence agency installed spyware on the phones of journalists and activists.
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Farid Mehralizada’s trial begins in Azerbaijan; Nika Novak sentenced to four years in Russian prison; RFE/RL journalis...
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Serbian police use mobile phone spyware to keep track of opponents and journalists, Amnesty says
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Hungary and Slovakia veto EU sanctions on Georgian officials as protests continue
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Georgian president joins pro-EU protests in capital Tbilisi
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Husband Of Iranian Rights Lawyer Arrested In Tehran
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Europe Thousands rally in Romania in support of pro-European presidential candidate
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Georgia's opposition says its leader was detained in altercation with police during protests
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Wife of Russian activist Igor Rogov arrested in Poland on suspicion of espionage
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Many thousands rally to oppose Georgian government after break with EU
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Lukashenko threatens internet shutdown in case of protests during 2025 elections
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President challenges election results as Georgia cracks down on protesters
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Kazakh Journalist Jailed For 4 Years Amid Press Crackdown
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Lithuanian Lawyer Imprisoned For Spying For Belarus
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Imprisoned Leader Of Unregistered Kazakh Opposition Party Starts Hunger Strike
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Jailed Iranian Activist Goes On Hunger Strike To Protest New Charges
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Georgia opposition party set to launch legal action against controversial foreign agent law
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Belarus: Free student jailed for 6.5 years for reposting criticism of Ukraine war and Lukashenka
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Belarus' Lukashenko says will release ill opponents from prison
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Ilham Aliyev's New Azerbaijan Party, which holds 69 of 125 seats in the outgoing parliament, is expected to win a fresh...
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Lawyer Of Executed Iranian Protester Sentenced To 6 Years For 'Propaganda Against The Regime'
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Police detain about 30 protesters supporting Moldovan opposition
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Armenian archbishop calls four days of protests to seek ouster of PM
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Smear Campaign On Social Media Aims To Discredit Georgian Protests
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Defence demands to release activist Marina Melikhova from SIZO
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Human rights defender Oleg Orlov* remains on register of foreign agents
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Turkmen Police Detain Couples Holding Hands, Looking Romantic In Public
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Georgia approves controversial 'foreign agent' law, sparking more protests
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Armenian police arrest 41 at protest against border concessions
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Thousands protest in Georgia against 'foreign agents' bill
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Almost 100 detained at anti-government protest in Armenia, media say
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Court In Tatarstan Reinstates Fine For Activist Who Supported RFE/RL Journalist
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Azerbaijan: Campaign of intimidation against independent media continues with raid on Toplum TV
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French Defense Chief Visits Armenia Amid Deepening Ties
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Czech, Slovak farmers join neighbours in blocking borders in protest
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Lawyer For Executed Iranian Protester Summoned To Court After Critical Remarks
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Vladimir Kara-Murza: Fears for Russian activist after secretive jail move
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Kazakhstan: Massive restrictions on expression during Covid-19; sudden banning of peaceful opposition
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Belarus arrests prominent journalist amid wider crackdown on opposition figures
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Belarus crackdown targets not just political activists but also their lawyers
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Moldova police say they foiled Russia-backed unrest plot
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Serbia asks Russia to end recruitment of its people for Ukraine war
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Uzbekistan: Leading Karakalpak activist loses appeal
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U.N. urges Belarus, Poland to address refugees' 'dire conditions'
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Uzbekistan says 18 killed, hundreds wounded in unrest
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Uzbekistan lifts state of emergency in Karakalpakstan after protest deaths
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Activists reject Uzbek government's version of deadly protests
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Uzbek leader blames 'foreign forces' for outbreak of unrest
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Georgians rally in show of support for EU, call on government to quit
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Uzbekistan scraps plans to curb Karakalpak autonomy after protest
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Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against war in Ukraine
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Russian police detained 5,000 people at Sunday's anti-war protests - monitor
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More than 4,300 detained at anti-war protests in Russia
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Large crowds gather in Hamburg and Paris to protest Russia's war in Ukraine
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Armenia detains hundreds of anti-govt protesters as opposition calls for PM to resign
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Ukraine: Anti-war protests take place around the world
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Kazakhstan: Civic space limited by continued fallout from January 2022 events
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Kazakhstan: Police crack down on anti-government rallies
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On Polish-Belarus border, migrant crossings decrease but tension remains
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Dozens detained at Kazakh protests over activist death
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Poland reports fewer attempts to cross its border with Belarus
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EU weighs further sanctions on Belarus over illegal migrants
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Poland condemns jailing of Belarus protest leaders
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Belarus forces airliner to land and arrests opponent, sparking U.S. and European outrage
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Wave of political repression: witch hunts for activists, marred elections and scores of arrests
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Ukraine security service says it has detained 60 pro-Russian protesters
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People attend a rally in front of Kyrgyzstan's interior ministry in Bishkek
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Belarus police arrest more than 100, prevent opposition rally
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Dozens detained as Belarus marks 'Freedom Day' with new protests
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Almost 350 people were detained on November 22 for violating mass gathering laws during protests in Belarus, the nationa...
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Baku: residents of Abkhazia involved in hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh
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Kazakhstan Activist Gets Criminal Record for Losing Cool with Police
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Over 580 people detained during protests in Belarus on October 26
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Thousands in Bulgaria's streets demanding government resign
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Kazakhstan: Over 100 detained in first protests since lockdown eased
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Police in Kazakhstan detained around 200 people Saturday as two opposition groups called for anti-government demonstrati...
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Belarus crowds rally against closer Russia relations
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New wave of protests in Georgia: about 40 people detained
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Protests Erupt in Georgia over Failed Electoral Reforms
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Thousands march in Moscow demanding open city elections
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Tens of thousands rally at election protest in Moscow
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Georgia: Mass rally outside parliament over Russian MP’s visit
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Georgia's Russia protests benefit Saakashvili
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Thousands Rally In Ingushetia To Protest Chechnya Land Swaps
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Thousands in Georgia protest against presidential election results
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Thousands Rally In Russia's Ingushetia Against 'Unfair' Border Deal With Chechnya
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Russia's protest spirit breaks as pension law passes
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Russians resume protests against pension age reform after detentions
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Russian police detain hundreds protesting against pension reform
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Georgian Protest Leader Says 'System Must Be Destroyed' As Demonstrations Continue
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Tbilisi Rally Continues After Police Dismantle Protest Camp
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Hundreds protest in Georgia after police raid night clubs
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