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In the midst of the pandemic and an economic crisis, many restaurants in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, were forced to close down.

All of Ukraine's statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should have been taken down under a law passed in 2015.

A new pine-nut processing factory has opened in the Afghan city of Gardez, the capital of the southeastern Afghan province of Paktia.

Pakistan's opposition staged a massive rally in Islamabad against Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is accused of illegally raising campaign funds from outside the country.

Hundreds of students gathered in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, on January 18 to demand that they be allowed to take exams virtually instead of being forced to be physically present in examination

Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny said a hearing he faced at a police station on January 18 was a mockery of justice and called for street protests, as Western leaders demanded his release.

Iranian nurse Somayeh Hosseinzadeh had to work back-to-back shifts away from her family for the first few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and says her department at Tehran's Shariati Hospital was

Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny appeared at a hearing on January 18, the day after he was detained at a Moscow airport upon his arrival from Germany.

Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was arrested at the passport control desk on arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on January 17.

Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny was detained on January 17 by law enforcement authorities at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after he arrived in Russia from Germany, where he was being

Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny has left Berlin for Moscow, despite the Russian authorities' stated intention to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.

Hundreds of freelancers and online workers marched through central Belgrade on January 16 to protest a recent law that requires them to pay income taxes for the last five years.

Old and young danced, sang, and marched from morning till morning in Krasnoilsk, a village in southern Ukraine close to the Romanian border, to see in the new year according to the popular Malanka

Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is returning to Moscow on Sunday, January 17, after six months in Germany being treated for a near-fatal poisoning.

In the Russian city of Novovoronezh, a poorly designed statue was so widely loathed that officials had it dismantled -- but not before it became a joke on social media.

Tair Borubaev has been working as a coal miner for eight years in the Suluktu coalfield in southern Kyrgyzstan. It's the oldest operational coalfield in Central Asia.

A Ukrainian doctor bows to pressure from her patients and removes her mask before entering a packed church service, while the country's president posts maskless selfies from a ski resort.

In Russia's Urals region, towns that once churned out industrial chemicals and coal are now largely abandoned.

Roman is a trained violinist who signed up to fight Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.

Cooking meals, cleaning, policing the streets, and burying the dead: These are just a few of the essential jobs whose demands never let up during the coronavirus crisis.

Snow and low temperatures have brought more misery for migrants living in a makeshift camp in a forest above the town of Velika Kladusa in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Hundreds of federal government employees rallied in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to call for an increase in their salaries in line with the rate of inflation.

Heavy rain and snow have brought devastating floods to thousands of hectares in western Kosovo.

There were no opposition parties in Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections, but the voting booths were open anyway to make sure people voted for the "right" candidates.

Delbar and her family of eight fled war in Afghanistan's Faryab Province almost a year ago and their home district is currently under the control of Taliban militants.

For the 22nd Sunday in a row, opposition supporters took to the streets of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, to protest against the government of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

An RFE/RL journalist has been expelled from a polling station by local election authorities saying that he did not have a negative COVID test.

Kyrgyz citizens went to the polls on January 10 in an election that is expected to confirm Sadyr Japarov's hold on power.

Dozens of activists were detained on January 10 in at least three of Kazakhstan's main cities, including the capital, Nur-Sultan, amid local and parliamentary elections.

Protesters carrying banned white-and-red national flags marched in parks and residential areas in a number of towns on January 9 demanding resignation of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and accountability for