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Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she had been "extremely surprised" by the news of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent phone call to Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka over the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on the European Union to do more to help Belarusians, whom she called "forgotten Europeans," in their fight for freedom.
Russian journalist and human rights activist Viktoria Ivleva has been fined for taking part in single-person protests to support one of the country's oldest human rights organizations, Memorial, which faces possible closure.
Russia's parliament is considering the introduction of a federal QR code system to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The QR codes could only be used by those who have been vaccinated or who recently recovered from COVID-19 or by people who can't be vaccinated on medical grounds.
A court in Minsk has sentenced a student to four years in prison for his coverage of anti-government protests on social media as authoritarin ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues his brutal crackdown on dissent stemming from a disputed presidential election in August 2020.
The Investigative Committee of Belarus has launched a probe against the BYPOL group that unites former law enforcement officers who support opposition politicians.
A Russian diplomat suspected of being an undercover agent of the Federal Security Service (FSB) was found dead in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month, German media have reported.
Thirty years after Lithuania achieved independence from the Soviet Union, it is requesting that Greece hand over a man from Ukraine who was involved in a Soviet military intervention. Oleksandr Radkevic was a tank driver when Soviet troops entered Vilnius in January 1991.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has warned that a large number of people are getting very sick and the capacity of hospitals is more than 80 percent full, as the Ukrainian capital implements tough new restrictions to stem a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths attributed to low vaccination rates.
Iryna Slavnikova, a representative of the Belsat TV channel, has been detained at Minsk airport together with her husband, Belsat deputy director Alyaksei Dzikavitski said on his Facebook page on October 30.
The Current Time analysis of content produced by Russian television network RT indicates the existence of two “parallel universes”: one for the Russian and a completely different for international audiences -- the latter full of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. (Current Time)
Ukraine has seen record numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths in October. The latest wave has swept through a population with a low rate of vaccination and a high level of misinformation regarding the pandemic and vaccines.
Moscow has criticized the United States after Washington added Russians seeking U.S. visas to a list of “homeless nationals” who can apply for visas in third countries.
Russia has reimposed unpopular lockdown measures after a summer in which officials jeered at similar restrictions in the West. Now, even Kremlin allies are charging that the government’s approach was wrong.
Russian opposition politician Lyubov Sobol says she doesn't feel "fully safe" after recently fleeing Russia in the summer, but she insists she will continue to fight against President Vladimir Putin's "criminal regime" and widespread corruption in her country.
The European Parliament’s decision to award Aleksei Navalny its prestigious Sakharov Prize raises his global standing and thus offers something resembling protection for the jailed dissident, analysts and colleagues say.
The son of a COVID-19 patient in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv claims he had to pay the equivalent of more than $1,000 for medicines and other services after his father was hospitalized with the virus for 13 days.
A group of attackers burst into the office of Russia’s Memorial human rights center in Moscow on October 14, interrupting the screening of a film about a Welsh journalist who reported the existence of the Stalin-era mass famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
There are some controversial new faces in Russia's State Duma after elections, widely deemed neither free nor fair, filled it once again with Kremlin-connected figures. Among them: Maria Butina, who was convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent for Russia and spent time in a U.S. jail.
Russia's Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually abusing his foster daughter. The decision was announced on the court's website.
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