The Biden administration should consider imposing sanctions on Hungarian officials and removing the country from a favorable visa regime to punish Prime Minister Viktor Orban for rolling back democracy and weakening NATO unity, a top senator from the president’s party said.
Frozen Russian Central Bank reserves held in an account at Euroclear, the Belgium-based international depository, generated 4.4 billion euros ($4.8 billion) in interest income in 2023, Euroclear reported.
A high-ranking NATO delegation led by Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina for two days of talks amid secessionist threats that could undermine the Balkan nation’s aspirations to join the Western military alliance.
Tulanboi Muidinov, a 71-year-old calligrapher, is the only person in Kyrgyzstan who specializes in ancient Arabic texts. Muidinov wants to pass on his skills to the next generation, but struggles to find followers.
Young people in Karakalpakstan have been warned against voicing support for the protests that shook the region in 2022. Those who ignore the warnings have been arrested, fined, or expelled from university, activists say. At least one student claims police threatened him with death.
The EU has expressed concern over a move by Kosovo to restrict all cash transactions anywhere in the country to euros and urged officials in Pristina to allow an extended implementation period to avoid “seriously complicating” the lives of ethnic Serbs in the country.
After military offensives that drove out ethnic Armenians from in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a massive development drive is transforming Azerbaijan's retaken land.
A new exhibition in Warsaw presents the drawings of imprisoned Belarusian politician and writer Paval Sevyarynets. The collection features portraits of family and friends, along with idyllic scenes of Belarus, extracted from personal letters addressed to his family.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has called for a protest against incumbent Vladimir Putin during a presidential election next month by having voters turn out en masse at noon on the voting days to form huge lines as a show of opposition.
Pro-Kremlin bloggers are up in arms over a new film adaptation of a Russian classic, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master And Margarita. The film, funded in part by the Russian state, faces a possible ban after the director's anti-war stance became known.
Pro-Kremlin bloggers are up in arms over a new film adaptation of a Russian classic, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master And Margarita. The film, funded in part by the Russian state, faces a possible ban after the director's anti-war stance became known.
A court in the Russian city of Kazan has extended the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody since October 18, by two months until April 5.
Georgian Dream, Georgia's ruling party, nominated its leader Irakli Kobakhidze, as its candidate for prime minister on February 1, just days after Irakli Gharibashvili stepped down to give the party time to prepare for general elections that are to be held in the Caucasus nation by October.
Officials say Pakistani security forces killed 22 alleged Baluch militants this week after they launched attacks in retaliation for Pakistani air strikes on militant positions in Iran last month.
Russia's Prosecutor General has declared Russian Election Monitor (REM) an "undesirable" organization, the State Duma commission to investigate foreign interference in Russian politics reported on February 1.
Bulgaria has granted asylum to Iranian citizen Alireza Beigi, who says he was given a death sentence in absentia in his homeland for renouncing Islam in favor of Christianity.