Thirty years after Lithuania achieved independence from the Soviet Union, it is requesting that Greece hand over a man from Ukraine who was involved in a Soviet military intervention. Oleksandr Radkevich was a tank driver when Soviet troops entered Vilnius in January 1991.
There are some controversial new faces in Russia's State Duma after elections, widely deemed neither free nor fair, filled it once again with Kremlin-connected figures. Among them: Maria Butina, who was convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent for Russia and spent time in a U.S. jail.
Dmitry Muratov, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, is chief editor of Novaya gazeta, a Russian newspaper that has repeatedly exposed corruption at the highest levels of government in the decades since its launch.
Dramatic video released by the Belarusian authorities appears to show a gunfight during a KGB raid in which two people were reportedly killed. Opposition figures condemned the use of violence by the KGB and raised doubts about the authenticity of the video.
Russia's parliamentary election have ended with victory for the ruling United Russia party amid widespread allegations of irregularities. Videos on social media showed what appeared to be ballot stuffing.
Russia heads to the polls in parliamentary elections September 17-19 amid a crackdown on opposition figures, independent media, and nongovernmental groups. We asked Russians: Do you think you have a real choice in this election?
Golos, an independent vote-monitoring movement in Russia, was labeled a "foreign agent" by the government just a month before the country's parliamentary elections. Kremlin critics see the designation as a way to hinder the work of organizations the government does not like.
Anatoly Nogovitsyn is perhaps the only politician closely linked to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny whom the authorities have allowed to run for parliament in elections on September 17-19.
Ukrainian pilot Veronika Borisova had once led Afghanistan's first all-female flight crew, but on August 15, she had a very different assignment -- piloting the first evacuation flight from Kabul to Kyiv.
Recent weeks have seen a spate of police raids on independent media companies and the homes of journalists in Russia, as part of an intensifying crackdown. Kremlin-critical media face fines, arrests, and violence.
The man who found the body of Belarusian activist Vital Shyshou in a park near his home in Kyiv says that he was briefed by Ukrainian intelligence officials that hit squads had been sent to Ukraine to "liquidate" activists in exile.
An animated film has been made in Tajikistan reflecting on the controversial case of a 5-year-old girl who was raped and killed near Moscow. Filmmaker Lolisanam Ulugova says she was moved to create the movie after seeing the girl's father in tears.
Amid brutal repression in Belarus, increasing numbers of people are finding political asylum in neighboring Latvia. Many left in the blink of an eye, leaving everything behind, and are now struggling to adjust.
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