Many Tajik migrants have been denied entry to Russia or deported from the country without explanation, while others report being beaten by police as anti-migrant sentiment rises in the wake of the March 22 terrorist attack near Moscow. But despite the difficult situation in Russia, many migrants say they will stay as they have no better alternative.
The director of the Customs Service in Moldova resigned on April 4 after law enforcement officials announced an investigation into corruption at Chisinau International Airport.
The United States has not asked India to cut Russian oil imports as the goal of sanctions and the $60 per barrel price cap imposed by the Group of Seven is to have stable global oil supplies while hitting Moscow's revenue, a U.S. Treasury Department official said on April 4.
Georgia's opposition calls it the "Russian law." The ruling party insists the bill is simply copied and pasted from U.S. legislation. But the newly resurrected On Transparency of Foreign Influence bill is, more than anything, a product of Georgia's homegrown struggle for political power.
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed new Iran-related counterterrorism sanctions against Oceanlink Maritime DMCC and its vessels on April 4, citing its role in shipping commodities on behalf of the Iranian military.
Georgia's government has rejected President Salome Zurabishvili's request to allow her to pay a working visit to the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, next week, in another sign of the growing animosity between the lawmakers from the ruling party and the head of state.
A lawmaker with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has denied allegations connecting him with Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns.
The European Union's "dithering" has allowed "foreign agent" laws to spread in Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights Watch says, increasing the risk to civil society organizations that are already under threat from governments who are seeking to stifle democratic institutions and the free press.
The United States and Finland have agreed to cooperate in “countering foreign state information manipulation,” the U.S. State Department announced on April 4.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on April 4 that it has detained three more Central Asian natives on suspicion of involvement in last month's attack on the Crocus City Hall entertainment center near Moscow that claimed more than 140 lives.
Ahmad Hanayesh, a freelance journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, sustained injuries in an attack by unknown gunmen in Islamabad on April 3.
Floodwaters in the western Kazakh city of Oral are forcing residents to move to safer ground. Many complain official rescue efforts have been disorganized with little information provided. Widespread flooding in the Central Asian country has led to the evacuation of nearly 19,000 people.
Prosecutors in the central Kazakh region of Ulytau said on April 3 that seven prison guards and five soldiers from the State Penitentiary Service will face trial for allegedly torturing inmates, an extremely rare case in the Central Asian state.
Police in the northwestern Kazakh region of Aqtobe said on April 4 that eight Uzbek citizens had died in a traffic accident on a highway connecting with the Russian city of Samara.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on April 4 that he had no doubt Russia would malevolently target the Paris Olympics this summer.
The Israeli military halted leave for all combat units on April 4 amid concerns of a possible escalation in violence after the killing of Iranian generals in Damascus this week drew threats of retaliation.
The Finnish government said it will extend the closure of border stations with Russia until further notice and added several ports to its list where travel would be prohibited.
Supporters of the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny gathered to paint a mural in his honor in Buenos Aires, before a face-off with Argentine police who said they had received complaints. Activists told us they believed the Russian Embassy was behind phone calls to the authorities.
Imprisoned Islamic scholar and civil rights activist Sedigheh Vasmaghi has been transferred from Tehran's notorious Evin prison to a hospital after reports surfaced that authorities were preventing the move, despite doctors' advice.
Executions in Iran hit an eight-year high in 2023, according to Amnesty International, more than half of which came for drug-related convictions.
The Moscow City Court on April 3 rejected an appeal filed by Isroil Islomov against his two-month detention after his arrest on suspicion of involvement in last month's attack on the Crocus City Hall entertainment center that claimed more than 140 lives.
Eight gunmen and five members of Iran's security forces were killed in clashes at two separate points in southeastern Iran, state media said on April 4.
Republika Srpska is going ahead with its controversial proposed law on "foreign agents," which aims to curb the work of nonprofit organizations financed from abroad in the Serbian entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
