The Iranian film Bidad has won the Special Jury Award at the Karlovy Vary Festival. Director Soheil Beiraghi, who faces prison in Iran, thanked Iranian women for inspiring him. The movie focuses on restrictions faced by women singers in Iran.
With global scrutiny escalating over a Kyrgyzstan-registered cryptocurrency exchange allegedly moving billions of dollars in just a few months, the deafening silence from Kyrgyz officials is raising urgent concerns about the country’s readiness to regulate its burgeoning digital assets sector.
EU foreign ministers are set to rubber stamp an agreement to impose sanctions on people and entities the bloc deems guilty of “actions destabilizing" Moldova, where Russia still wields massive influence and maintains more than 1,000 troops in the separatist Transdniester region.
A popular Afghan singer has been missing for more than a month in Kabul, where she shot to fame with her performance on a popular television talent show nearly a decade ago.
Zulala Hashimi became a popular Afghan celebrity as a teenager when she sang in a musical competition on Tolo TV in 2016. But when the Taliban returned to power, the government banned all musical performances, and Zulala returned to a quiet life. This June, she disappeared without a trace.
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how Iran’s leadership is embracing patriotic themes and national identity in an effort to unify a fractured nation in the wake of war.
The Srebrenica crimes were planned by the Bosnian Serb military and this timeline will use the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to show documents, testimonials, and official verdicts showing how the first genocide in Europe since World War II was organ
Roman Starovoit, who was found dead hours after President Vladimir Putin sacked him as Russia’s transport minister, was buried in a St. Petersburg cemetery amid continued questions about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Released last month after five years behind bars in Belarus, opposition firebrand Syarhey Tsikhanouski told RFE/RL he will continue to push against Aleksandr Lukashenko's rule and fight for the release of political prisoners who remain behind bars.
Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Almedina Kadašević is burying her brother Senajid, the youngest of seven victims being laid to rest this year. He was just 19 when Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in July 1995.
