Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region of Karachai-Cherkessia said on April 29 that two police officers were killed and four were wounded overnight in an attack by several armed individual...
https://www.rferl.org/a/karachai-cherkessia-police-attack-deaths-north-caucasus-russia/32924877.html
U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn’t order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in February, according to an offi...
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-navalny-death-order-us-official/32924952.html
Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a Chechen special forces training school in Gudermes.
https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov-son-adam-16-special-forces-supervise/32924923.html
An estimated 20,000 people took to the streets of Tbilisi late on April 28 to voice their opposition to the so-called "foreign agents" law ahead of the Georgian parliament’s planned second read...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-protest-foreign-agents-law/32924883.html
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia, and Hungary from May 5-10, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry announced April 29.
https://www.rferl.org/a/chinese-president-xi-visits-serba-hungary-france/32924861.html
A senior Pakistani judge has been released after being kidnapped in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, a senior provincial official told RFE/RL'...
https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-kidnapped-judge-released-marwat-taliban/32924821.html
Some 20,000 Georgians staged a "March for Europe" on April 28 calling on the government to discard a controversial "foreign influence" bill, which the EU has warned would undermine Tbilisi's Euro...
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says the Telegram messaging platform has blocked a number of official bots, including the chatbot used by Ukrainian intelligen...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-telegram-intelligence-bots-blocked/32924676.html
Online and print journalists will not have access to the Georgian parliament's plenary session on April 29, authorities said amid mounting protests against plans by the ruling party to introduce ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-protests-foreign-agents-law-media-banned-parliament/32924705.html
RFE/RL's Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. The Live Briefing presents the ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html
Thousands of people took to the streets of the Georgian capital again to protest plans by the ruling party to introduce a law that domestic critics and Western countries have said will be used to...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-dream-foreign-agents-protests-russia/32924070.html
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif discussed a new loan program with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on April 28, his office said.
https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-imf-extended-loan-facility-georgieva-riyadh/32924039.html
Iranian authorities have banned the controversial Egyptian television series Hashashin (Assassin) about the life of Hassan Sabah, citing historical “distortions,” state media reported on Apri...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-television-egypt-hashashin-assassin-sabah/32924010.html
The crackdown on independent media in Russian mounted over the weekend, with two journalists having alleged ties to the late Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation and Western news outlets ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-journalists-arrest-crackwon-karelin-gabov/32923985.html
Russian officials threatened the West on April 28 with a "severe" response in the event that frozen Russian assets are confiscated, promising "endless" legal challenges and tit-for-tat measures.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-frozen-assets-ukraine-severe-response/32923967.html
A senior judge serving the South Waziristan district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has been kidnapped by armed men.
https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-militants-tribal-region-judge-kidnapped/32923941.html
Armenians have blocked the Yerevan-Gyumri highway as protests continue against plans to hand over several border areas to rival Azerbaijan as part of a peace deal.
https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-azerbaijan-protests-border-delimitation/32923881.html
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron just completed an official trip to all five Central Asian states. For Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, this was the first time a British foreign s...
https://www.rferl.org/a/majlis-podcast-cameron-central-asia/32923843.html
The Iranian military on April 28 presented a new attack drone designed to fly into targets and explode, like the kind used by Russia in the war in Ukraine.
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-new-drone-russia-ukraine/32923822.html
Ukraine’s top general warned on April 28 that the situation for Kyiv’s forces in the east has deteriorated, with Russia attacking “along the entire front line” and achieving “certain ta...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-energy-attack/32923789.html