Four Tajiks are accused by the Russian authorities of storming a Moscow-region concert hall and killing scores of people. Professor Edward Lemon says Tajiks have been recruited to Islamist extremist groups largely inside Russia, with recruiters often targeting disenfranchised migrants.
The international envoy to Bosnia-Herzegovina imposed technical changes to the election law on March 26 that he said were meant to strengthen electoral integrity.
The U.S. Treasury Department on March 25 said it had imposed sanctions on Russian financial services and technology players for developing or offering services in virtual assets aimed at evading Ukraine war-related sanctions on Russia.
Police in Kyiv cordoned off a park with scattered Russian missile debris on March 24. Air-raid sirens were still sounding when Reuters filmed the fragments of the Kh-55 cruise missile intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses. Ukraine has faced intensified Russian attacks in recent days.
Flowers and toys are piling up outside the Crocus City Hall in the Russian city of Krasnogorsk on March 24, which has been declared a national day of mourning following a mass shooting incident two days earlier. At least 133 people died in the attack claimed by the militant Islamic State group.
Analysts told RFE/RL that they believe an affiliate of the Islamic State militant group, Islamic State-Khorasan, is the most likely perpetrator of an attack on an entertainment center near Moscow and that extremists saw an opportunity with Russia overstretched by its operations abroad.
Emergency services were still at the scene and smoke continued to rise from the Crocus City Hall in the Russian city of Krasnogorsk early on March 23, a day after gunmen killed scores of concertgoers inside the building and set it on fire.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection despite condemnation of the vote by many Western governments.
An open letter signed by more than two dozen Nobel Prize winners calls for the immediate release of political prisoners in Belarus.
Twelve miners were killed and eight rescued after an explosion in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan, officials said on March 20.
Russians and Belarusians will not be allowed to take part in the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says that he will propose that the EU use 90 percent of the revenues from Russian assets frozen in Europe to buy arms for Ukraine via the European Peace Facility fund.
A jury in the U.S. state of New Mexico on March 18 found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant in one of three 2022 ambush-style shootings.
The European Union is preparing to levy tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus to placate farmers and some member states, the Financial Times reported on March 19.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates is unsure how many Russians will compete as neutral athletes at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, but thinks reports that it might be as low as 40 could be close to the mark.
South Ossetia, a breakaway region in Georgia, has discussed its possible inclusion into Russia with Moscow, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing South Ossetia's parliament speaker.
Indian naval forces including special commandos seized a cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates, rescuing 17 crew members, a spokesperson for the navy said on March 16.
Ukraine's European supporters will use profits on frozen Russian assets to finance arms purchases for Kyiv, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on March 15 following a meeting with his French and Polish counterparts in Berlin.
Finland plans to adopt temporary legislation that will allow its border authorities to block asylum seekers seeking to enter its territory from Russia, the government said.
Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an aircraft used by Defense Minister Grant Shapps to travel from Poland back to Britain, a government source and journalists traveling with him said.
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