Tymur Mindich, a prominent businessman and the alleged ringleader in a massive corruption scandal in Ukraine’s energy sector, used a luxury taxi service to leave the country, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
Since a ban on disposable e-cigarettes, Ukrainian volunteers have shipped thousands of unused vape batteries to Ukraine where they are made into powerbanks for frontline soldiers.
Kazakhstan has revoked the citizenship of dozens of naturalized Kazakhs from Afghanistan in recent years. Many of them have effectively become stateless after giving up their Afghan nationalities.
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how a promotional video by a private contractor in Iran may have inadvertently revealed the construction of a subterranean military base.
A small but growing number of Chinese nationals are traveling to the Balkans with the hope of reaching the European Union, and smugglers and local governments have taken notice.
With elections suspended under martial law and Ukrainians displaying strong unity in the face of the Russian onslaught, politics has been largely on hold over nearly four years of full-scale war. But a burgeoning corruption scandal poses the biggest challenge yet to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Iran is grappling with the worst water crisis in decades, which has been largely fueled by government mismanagement and severe drought.
Ukraine has been rocked by a corruption scandal in which suspects allegedly discussed millions of dollars worth of kickbacks on protection for energy plants, even as Russian bombs raining down on them plunged citizens into cold and darkness.
Ukraine's 7th Rapid Response Corps has posted video on Facebook showing troops in Pokrovsk working with ground drones as they defend the city, which was once an important transport and logistics hub for the Ukrainian military.
Lithuania’s Prime Minister has said it’s “a hybrid attack” – hundreds of weather balloons flying across the border from Belarus, causing airport chaos. But the incidents also point to a long-standing, large-scale smuggling network that allegedly has high-level links in Minsk.
Women not covered from head to toe are being prevented from entering public health facilities in western Afghanistan. The move came after the Taliban imposed new dress restrictions in the city of Herat.
Authorities in Romania have arrested a former senator for allegedly attempting to offer a 1 million-euro ($1.16 million) bribe to the country’s defense minister to facilitate an arms deal that could be fraudulently financed by a European Union program.
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