Farit Zakiyev, the head of an organization that promotes Tatar language and culture, was sentenced to community service for taking part in Tatarstan's Commemoration Day.
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus for a rare and risky glimpse at the stricken power plant's radioactive ruins.
At least five people were killed and more than 12 injured by a bomb blast at a luxury hotel in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province.
Pakistani authorities used shipping containers to block main roads in and out of Islamabad, as protests continued following the anniversary of a French magazine's publication of caricatures of the
Women living in Iranian cities say they face frequent sexual harassment, catcalls, and verbal abuse -- and many fear that those incidents mean they're not safe from violent crimes.
A correspondent with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service witnessed the shelling of Ukrainian army positions from territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists near Horlivka in eastern Ukraine.
Several dozen protesters rallied in front of the government building in Sarajevo on April 17 calling on the country’s parliament to remove the government they accuse of a poor management of the
To protest the recent escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine, activists placed a bare mannequin of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a golden toilet outside the Russian embassy in Prague.
Video recently shot in Crimea shows a marked increase in the movement of Russian military vehicles along the Tavrida highway in the east of the peninsula.
An ongoing protest against the construction of the Namakhvani hydropower plant in western Georgia continued on April 14 as demonstrators gathered near the village of Gumati and later decamped to the
A group of people in Pakistan's South Waziristan district have resorted to living in caves. Some were displaced by military operations and violence, others were driven to them by poverty.
A Budapest hospital that was refurbished in 2012 to care for homeless people is facing eviction after the Hungarian authorities decided to evict it from its premises.
Mohammad Khan's family fled Pakistan's Waziristan region during anti-Taliban military operations and endured the hardships of life as displaced people.
Several thousand people blocked traffic in front of the Serbian parliament on April 10 in a protest against lack of government action to prevent water, land and air pollution by industries such as
The COVID-19 pandemic is raging across Ukraine. At a small rural hospital in the village of Lavriv in the country's Lviv region, there are no spare beds and patients are lying in corridors.
Russia says its forces are conducting drills, but the large presence of troops and military equipment near its border with Ukraine has leaders in Kyiv and the West concerned that it could lead to a