Bulgarian Parliament Adopts Broad Ban On Gambling Advertising
The Bulgarian parliament has unanimously approved legislation to ban advertising for gambling on nearly all forms of media from television and radio to newspapers and websites.
The Bulgarian parliament has unanimously approved legislation to ban advertising for gambling on nearly all forms of media from television and radio to newspapers and websites.
Civil society in Georgia will be “negatively” impacted if parliament approves a so-called “foreign agents” bill that has sparked huge protests in the capital of Tbilisi and called into question the Caucasus nation’s further path towards membership in the European Union.
"Highly confidential" documents uncovered by British broadcaster BBC indicate that Nika Shakarami, a 17-year-old Iranian protester, was sexually assaulted and killed after being detained by security forces during unrest sparked by the Women, Freedom, Life protests in 2022.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is scheduled to visit Iran to take part in a nuclear conference from May 6-8 and meet Iranian officials, Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency said on April 30.
A Moscow court on April 30 ordered pretrial detention for at least two months for five young people suspected of an arson attack on a Ka-32 helicopter in the Russian capital's outskirts.
A Kazakh refugee in Serbia who has waited nine years for official residence status has finally been given a new kind of document: a "refugee passport." Baha Sarsenov, who fled political persecution in Kazakhstan in 2015, will finally be able to travel again. But his new UN Refugee Convention travel document, as it's formally known, is not a Serbian passport. He's still awaiting citizenship, along with just two others who have been granted the document.
Imprisoned Islamic scholar and civil activist Sedigheh Vasmaghi has been released on bail amid concerns over her deteriorating health after she was moved to a hospital from Tehran's notorious Evin prison earlier this month.
Dusko Knezevic, once a close ally of former Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, has been extradited to Montenegro from Britain to face corruption charges.
The West Kazakhstan region's police department told RFE/RL on April 30 that journalist Raul Uporov, who extensively covered ongoing unprecedented floods in the city of Oral had been charged with hooliganism.
Estonia accused Russia of violating international airspace regulations by interfering with GPS signals.
Kazakh authorities have jailed several opposition activists on the eve of rallies planned by the opposition across the country on May 1.
The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office said investigators have detained former Interior Minister Erlan Turghymbaev on a charge of abuse of office and power.
Interior Ministry officials are quoted as saying on April 30 that 398 naturalized Russian citizens had been stripped of their passports after Russia adopted a law in October that allows for the move against those convicted of certain crimes.
Georgia's parliament is set to vote on the second reading of a so-called "foreign agents" bill -- regarded by many as mirroring one used by the Kremlin to silence its critics -- amid growing protests and Western warnings that the law is undemocratic.
Seven people were killed in an attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan's Herat Province late on April 29.
Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in rival pro- and anti-government rallies as parliament resumed discussions of the so-called "foreign agents" bill. Supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party gathered in central Tbilisi on April 29 after a mass opposition protest the night before. Critics of the legislation say it would stifle civil society by restricting the operations of organizations with foreign funding.