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In this week's briefing, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak is drilling down on two issues: why the EU cannot agree on an envoy for Russia-Ukraine peace talks and what safeguards Montenegro could face when it joins the bloc.
Sanctions and growing international isolation are closing off pathways for young Iranians hoping to study abroad. The suspension of major English-language exams in Iran has created yet another obstacle for prospective international students.
Recent reports that 20 Bangladeshis were killed on the front lines in Russia's war against Ukraine have again raised accusations that Moscow is deceiving recruits and forcing them to fight.
Kazakhstan's proposal to grant Russia observer status in the Organization of Turkic States has sparked controversy, raising questions about Moscow's eligibility and its restrictions on the cultural and political rights of Turkic peoples within Russia.
For the first time since February, the US, Ukraine, and Russia meet on November 10-11 for talks aimed at ending the biggest war in Europe since 1945, but expectations of breakthrough are low. Here’s why.
Sources familiar with a notorious trial that led to 10 death sentences for people who joined protests in the central Iranian city of Isfahan in January have revealed new details of torture, rape threats, and glaring judicial irregularities in the case.
American defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s recent announcement that it had been awarded a $694 million contract by the US Air Force to produce a new air-launched hypersonic missile is the latest sign of an accelerating tripartite arms race involving the US, China, and Russia.
As Serbia’s new parliamentary majority plots a new path for the country, its hands may be tied by old economic dependencies on Russian energy resources and Chinese investments.
US President Donald Trump, with roughly two months before a Democratic Congress takes control, faces a set of less-than-ideal options with the Iran war: negotiate, escalate, or sit tight.
An increasing number of cases point to the human cost of a recruitment system in Russia that increasingly relies on private companies and intermediaries who often work on the fringes to bolster the ranks of a military depleted by the war against Ukraine.
Twenty years after investigative journalist Anna Politikovskaya was shot dead, the paper she worked for is crushed under pressure from the Russian state. A small cease-fire in Ukraine is followed by a massive attack, while a seismic political shift in the US precedes new trilateral peace talks.
Two tigers are now prowling the Kazakh wilderness, nearly 80 years after the last spotting of the apex predators in the country.
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