Georgians have been demonstrating in huge numbers since April 9 over legislation known as the "foreign agents" bill. Despite the massive opposition, Georgia's ruling party is steadily moving towa...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-foreign-agents-bill-explainer/32929551.html
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has dismissed Ilya Vityuk, head of the cybersecurity department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), amid allegations of corruption.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-corruption-vityuk-cybersecurity-sbu/32929550.html
The United States on May 1 accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "a...
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-chemical-weapons-us/32929502.html
Lyudmila Menyuk, a veteran of Russia's war on Ukraine, helps military families through therapy. She offers them the understanding and support she would have wanted for her son, Stanislav Menuyk, ...
The U.S. Treasury Department on May 1 imposed new sanctions on hundreds of companies and people tied to Russia's weapons development program as part of its continuing effort to limit Russia’s a...
https://www.rferl.org/a/sanctions-us-russia-ukraine-weapons/32929491.html
Prime minister-elect Milos Vucevic told the Serbian parliament on May 1 that membership in the European Union remains the country’s strategic goal but said “burdens” introduced into the mem...
https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-government-vucevic-balkans-russia-ukraine/32929470.html
By appointing two members who are under U.S. sanctions to the new Serbian government, Belgrade has only nurtured its relationship with Moscow, a senior associate with the Berlin-based Council for...
https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-vucic-vucevic-us-sanctions/32929290.html
With 72 percent of Ukrainians using it to get news and with some state agencies relying on it, Telegram has become the key social-media platform in wartime Ukraine. Critics accuse it of facilitat...
https://www.rferl.org/a/telegram-ukraine-disinformation-regulation-russia/32927872.html
Russia’s envoy to the United Nations has dismissed a proposed General Assembly resolution on the 1995 massacres in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica as "one-sided" and "politically charged."
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-un-srebrenica-genocide-bosnia/32929217.html
A surge of labor unrest, buffeted by widespread protests over sharp cuts to fuel quotas for truck drivers, has swept across Iran as economic hardship and poor living standards wrack the country�...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-truckers-protest-labor-unrest/32929129.html
Georgian police clashed with demonstrators in the capital, Tbilisi, protesting a law on foreign agents that many say mirrors a law used by the Russian government to stifle dissent in that country...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-police-protesters-foreign-agents-law/32929074.html
The United States said it was "disappointed" following the announcement that two individuals under U.S. sanctions have been included in the proposed new Serbian cabinet.
https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-sanctions-government-ministers-cabinet/32929045.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
The parliament of Georgia on May 1 voted to advance a controversial 'foreign agent' bill that has sparked weeks of mass protests in the capital, Tbilisi, and warnings from Brussels that it would ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-protests-foreignagent-law-russia/32928795.html
Five people were killed on May 1 in separate strikes in eastern Ukraine by Russian forces firing missiles and bombs that hit small towns in the regions of Kharkiv and Donetsk, local officials sai...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-missiles-odesa-russia-civilians/32928745.html
Thousands of Georgian opposition supporters came out on April 30 for another night of protests against the so-called "foreign agents" bill, legislation that critics say would stifle civil society...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-police-crackdown-protests/32928249.html
The Bulgarian parliament has unanimously approved legislation to ban advertising for gambling on nearly all forms of media from television and radio to newspapers and websites.
https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-gambling-advertising-ban-revenues-sports-broadcasters/32928183.html
Civil society in Georgia will be “negatively” impacted if parliament approves a so-called “foreign agents” bill that has sparked huge protests in the capital of Tbilisi and called into qu...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgian-foreign-agent-bill-osce-ngos/32927822.html
"Highly confidential" documents uncovered by British broadcaster BBC indicate that Nika Shakarami, a 17-year-old Iranian protester, was sexually assaulted and killed after being detained by secur...
https://www.rferl.org/a/bbc-documents-iranian-forces-teen-killed-custody/32928048.html
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is scheduled to visit Iran to take part in a nuclear conference from May 6-8 and meet Iranian officials, Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agenc...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nuclear-grossi-tehran-visit-iaea-conference/32927936.html