The Rundown Stories

• February 23, 2026

  Romania Cancels ID Cards For 100,000 Moldovans Amid Fictitious Address Scam

  Romania has canceled identity papers for 100,000 dual Romanian-Moldovan citizens in response to scams that have lasted for years.

• February 23, 2026

  Locked Out Of School: Russia's Rules Push Migrant Families Home

  Months after Russia’s language and registration rules took effect, thousands of Central Asian children remain shut out of schools, forcing families to return home and leaving education gaps behind.

• February 23, 2026

  Give Me Back My Name: Identifying Ukraine's Missing War Dead

  A new documentary goes inside the frontline missions to recover Ukraine’s war dead and traces the complex forensic efforts to give a name to the unidentified remains.

• February 23, 2026

  Iran, Pressured At Home And Abroad, Looks Set For Third Round Of US Talks

  The Iranian government, facing pressure at home with a growing opposition and globally with threats of a US military strike, looks set for a third round of Omani-mediated talks with American negotiators in the upcoming week.

• February 22, 2026

  New Student Protests Highlight Ongoing Unrest In Tehran

  Iranian students faced off with security forces outside Tehran universities for the second day in a row, according to videos published online, in the biggest reported show of opposition in the capital since the deadly crackdown last month.

• February 22, 2026

  Dozens Wounded, 1 Dead In 'Terrorist Act' In Ukraine's Lviv

  A police officer was killed and dozens of other people were wounded after two blasts in Ukraine's major western city of Lviv, as Russia pounded country's regions with dozens of missiles.

• February 22, 2026

  How Much Does This Highway Cost Serbian Residents?

  Several villages in western Serbia, known for their agricultural production, have found themselves on the route of a highway to Montenegro, which is being built by the Chinese company CCCC. But expropriation process has triggered a string of lawsuits.

• February 22, 2026

  As Ukraine War Enters Fifth Year, Europe Faces Hard Truth On China

  Efforts to pressure Beijing have failed to slow support for Moscow, highlighting enforcement gaps and deep economic dependencies, analysts and EU officials told RFE/RL.

• February 22, 2026

  Pakistan Launches Fresh Attacks Inside Afghanistan Amid Rising Tensions

  Pakistan said it launched strikes on seven militant sites inside Afghanistan in a "retributive response” to recent suicide attacks it said were carried out by Afghan-based extremists, as tensions escalated between the two South Asian neighbors.

• February 22, 2026

  Ukraine Supporters Rally in Washington, Call for 'Rock-Solid' Western Unity

  Four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor, hundreds of Ukraine's supporters gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, transforming the heart of the US capital into a sea of blue and yellow.

• February 21, 2026

  What An Obscure Russian Memorial Says About The Cost Of Moscow's War In Ukraine

  Bashkortostan appears to have suffered more casualties than any other region of Russia since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to the patchy data available.

• February 21, 2026

  US Steps Up South Caucasus Push As Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Hangs In Balance

  Nearly six months after the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan met at the White House, a central question remains: Has the political breakthrough translated into irreversible peace -- or is the process still contingent on fragile domestic and geopolitical dynamics?

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