Russians and Belarusians will not be allowed to take part in the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said.
A Kyrgyz prosecutor on March 19 asked a Bishkek court to convict United Kyrgyzstan opposition party leader Adakhan Madumarov on all charges but not to sentence him due to the statute of limitations.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has welcomed a decision by a court in Bishkek to cancel a move by Kyrgyzstan's Culture Ministry to block the Russian-language website of the independent media outlet Kloop.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has called on the world's athletes to ignore Russia's plans to organize a so-called Friendship Games, saying the plan is a "cynical attempt to politicize sport."
Belarusian ice hockey player Kanstantsin Kaltsou has died in Florida in an apparent suicide, police in Miami said.
A Moscow court on March 19 sentenced former Russian Deputy Education Minister and former Deputy President of Sberbank Marina Rakova to five years in prison on fraud and embezzlement charges.
The Mash Iptash Telegram channel linked to Russia's law enforcement structures said on March 19 that a probe was launched against self-exiled Tatar political analyst Ruslan Aisin on charges of the rehabilitation of Nazism and violation of "foreign agent" status.
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), one of the country's oldest and largest international aid groups, has suspended activities in Afghanistan after the Taliban revoked its licenses.
Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti says he will not suspend a ban by the central bank on the Serbian dinar in parts of the country with Serbian majorities but will accept the forming of an Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities once Belgrade agrees to sign an agreement on bilateral relations.
Russia has declared RFE/RL to be an “undesirable” organization. What does this mean if you're in Russia?
Last week, the Duma speaker proposed banning copyright payments to “foreign agents.” Earlier in the month, President Vladimir Putin signed a law forbidding advertising on so-called foreign agent media. The measures are in line with expectations that greater repression awaits in Putin’s new term.
If there were a Guinness record for most world records per capita in one town, it would doubtless be held by Talin, Armenia. The town has just 7,000 inhabitants but they have broken dozens of records, and at the Home of the Titans gym they are training for more.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says the delimitation and demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan, an issue that has been a key hurdle to a peace deal between the two countries after Baku retook control over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, has begun.
A statistical modeling tool developed by a Russian physicist designated a "foreign agent" has shown substantial anomalies with past Russian elections. According to number crunchers using the technique, this year's election, in which Vladimir Putin has claimed a resounding victory, may have been the worst ever.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Kremlin's marginalization of civil society and the "intense repression" of independent voices in Russia mean a weekend presidential election that saw Vladimir Putin claim a fifth presidential term in a landslide "can only be described as undemocratic."
Locals in Armenia's Tavush Province fear they will be cut off from key roads amid peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan following the armed conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan is demanding that Armenia cede four villages.
Five women in Georgia have alleged that they were sexually abused by a metropolitan in the Georgian Orthodox Church, raising troubling questions about the impunity enjoyed by high-ranking clerics.
For decades, Afghans have sought refuge in neighboring countries to flee poverty, humanitarian crises, and war. Now they are increasingly being forced back to their home country as physical barriers are erected to keep them there.
Police in Azerbaijan's western district of Daskasan on March 19 detained the chairman of the local branch of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (AXCP), Sahib Mammadzada, for allegedly possessing illegal drugs.
A Bishkek court said on March 19 that it had a day earlier acquitted
Kazem Seddiqi, Tehran's temporary Friday Prayers Imam, and his sons have been accused by a local journalist of having acquired several thousand square meters of prime real estate in the Iranian capital's northern districts, which he denies.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has urged the international community to refuse to recognize President Vladimir Putin as a "legitimate" leader of the country after elections last weekend that have "no meaning."
Vasily Orlov, the governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Amur, said on March 19 that rescue teams were trying to establish contact with 13 miners trapped underground after an overnight landslide at a mine.
Moldova's Foreign Ministry says it has declared a Russian diplomat persona non grata after Moscow's embassy opened polling stations in separatist Transdniester during the weekend's Russian presidential election.
A former special prosecutor and a current presidential candidate in North Macedonia have been banned from entering the United States for their involvement in "corrupt acts" to benefit themselves.
