Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov visited Sudan on April 29 in a signal of support for the Sudanese Army, which is locked in a war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The total value of a 35-year contract to maintain, operate, and build most of Hungary's highways won by seven private equity funds whose owners have close ties to the Hungarian government is at least $45 billion, according to documents obtained by RFE/RL.
Police in Baku detained the chairman of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Education Center, Anar Mammadli, his colleagues said on April 29.
RFE/RL photo correspondent Petr Trotsenko traveled to Kazakhstan's southeastern town of Zharkent to see how ordinary life has been impacted by a roaring trade between Beijing And Astana.
A shadowy Uzbek firm with ties to the president’s family has scrambled to reanimate its dormant website after a recent RFE/RL investigation revealed it had secured more than $100 million in secretive state gas deals despite having a virtually imperceptible public business footprint.
A group of former prisoners who were once detained in Iran have slammed the Swedish government, saying it had failed to take enough action to secure the release of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian physician facing the death penalty in Iran.
There has been global outrage after Iran handed a death sentence to Toomaj Salehi, a 33-year-old rapper who was detained for supporting nationwide protests following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022. As his lawyers press ahead to appeal the decision, one prominent supporter has told RFE/RL she hopes Tehran will back down to avoid sparking a new wave of mass protests.
Kazakhstan's Emergencies Ministry said on April 29 that among those forced to flee the recent unprecedented flooding in the north, 38,521 people had returned home.
Czech police confirmed on April 29 that agents of Russia's military intelligence (GRU) were involved in two ammunition depot blasts that killed two workers near the eastern Czech village of Vrbetice in 2014
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A nationwide polio vaccination campaign started on April 29 in Afghanistan, Taliban authorities announced.
The Tajik Foreign Ministry said on April 28 that 954 Tajik nationals have been left stranded at Moscow airports due to tightened passport and custom controls in the wake of a terror attack last month.
Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region of Karachai-Cherkessia said on April 29 that two police officers were killed and four were wounded overnight in an attack by several armed individuals who threw an explosive device and opened fire at a traffic police patrol.
U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn’t order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in February, according to an official familiar with the determination.
Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a Chechen special forces training school in Gudermes.
An estimated 20,000 people took to the streets of Tbilisi late on April 28 to voice their opposition to the so-called "foreign agents" law ahead of the Georgian parliament’s planned second reading of the controversial bill. Critics compare the bill to similar legislation that has been used to silence opposition groups in Russia. The proposed law requires organizations with foreign funding to register their activities with the government.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia, and Hungary from May 5-10, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry announced April 29.
A senior Pakistani judge has been released after being kidnapped in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, a senior provincial official told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on April 29.
Some 20,000 Georgians staged a "March for Europe" on April 28 calling on the government to discard a controversial "foreign influence" bill, which the EU has warned would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.
Online and print journalists will not have access to the Georgian parliament's plenary session on April 29, authorities said amid mounting protests against plans by the ruling party to introduce a law that critics say will be used to crack down on independent voices in the South Caucasus nation.
