The United States expressed concern on April 5 after Georgia's ruling party resubmitted a proposal that critics say is aimed at crushing dissent and which triggered mass demonstrations last year.
Migrant workers are reporting massive crowds at immigration centers in Russia, where the process of getting visas has become close to impossible. Russian authorities say the long lines are due to the regular arrival of seasonal workers. But according to one rights defender, officials are denying entry and deporting new arrivals as part of an ongoing crackdown on migrants from Central Asia.
A dam burst on April 5 in the Russian city of Orsk in the Ural Mountains and an evacuation is under way, local emergency services said.
The Supreme Court of Montenegro on April 5 overturned the extradition of reputed "cryptocurrency king" Do Kwon to South Korea and referred the case back to the Higher Court in Podgorica.
How a group of American aviators became the first people to fly around the world in an epic, 175-day adventure.
After a decade of trying, supporters of a Russian-style law regulating foreign-funded civic organizations in Kyrgyzstan have finally had their way. With the law's focus on broadly defined "political activities," critics of the law forecast an increase in both authoritarianism and the Kremlin's influence over the Central Asian country.
The European Union and the United States have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to Armenia as Yerevan looks westward amid failing relations with its traditional ally, Russia.
A Moscow court on April 5 sentenced 11 activists to prison terms between five years and eight years on charges of making online calls for mass unrest and inciting hatred.
A leading Kazakh sinologist and former senior government adviser, Konstantin Syroyezhkin, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison on high-treason charges in 2019, has been released on parole five years early.
A Kyrgyz court has sent a veteran anti-government political critic to prison, canceling a five-year suspended sentence after prosecutors argued it was too lenient.
Iran on April 5 renewed its pledge to avenge the deaths of seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Syria.
The mother of a Moscow terror attack suspect says her son worried that he would get caught in a Russian police raid as his resident permit neared expiration. Gulrakat Mirzoeva claims her son Dalerjon Mirzoev, one of four Tajik men accused of carrying out the attack on March 22, is innocent. At least 144 people were killed in the attack.
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New research has shown that there were twice as many violent deaths in the four decades of communist rule than in the years of democratization since the fall of the regime.
Saeed Madani, a prominent Iranian sociologist serving a nine-year sentence in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, has reportedly been transferred to a facility on the city's outskirts in an attempt, his wife says, to further isolate him.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on April 5 that it had summoned South Korean Ambassador Lee Do-hoon to inform him that Moscow considers Seoul's recent sanctions imposed on Russian citizens and organizations as "another unfriendly" move based on "baseless accusations."
The Christian Vision Telegram channel said on April 5 that preacher, poet, and father of seven, Syarhey Melyanets, was not released after serving 13 days in jail on unspecified charges amid an ongoing crackdown on civil society by the government of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka
The Staatsschauspiel theater in Dresden said on April 4 that the 2024 Dresden Peace Prize will be posthumously awarded to Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who died in prison in the Russian Arctic in February.
Viktor Orban received a state award from Milorad Dodik, the Western-sanctioned Bosnian Serb separatist leader, as the Hungarian prime minister continued a controversial trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Restoration work has begun on a 4th-century fortress from Tbilisi's storied architectural and historic past.
Russian authorities have launched a probe against two self-exiled pensioners from Russia's northwestern region of Karelia.
Authorities in the city of Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East said on April 5 that a state of emergency has been announced in the city's Industrialny district due to elevated levels of radiation.
Kosovo officials have begun conducting the country's first census in over a decade, as the country's main Serbian political party vowed to boycott the count.
The Omsk regional court in Siberia has sentenced a 46-year-old local resident to 12 years in prison on a high treason charge.
A court in St. Petersburg has sent well-known Russian opposition activist and Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Skobov to pretrial detention until at least June 1.
