Belarusian authorities have blocked access to Deutsche Welle and Current Time amid an intensifying crackdown on the media and civil society following last year’s disputed presidential election.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has won the Sakharov Prize, a prestigious honor awarded by the European Parliament for human rights defenders. Navalny has targeted Russia's elite with anti-corruption investigations, but is now in prison on charges widely seen as politically motivated.
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.
Kazakhstan will switch from its current Russian dialing code, +7, to its own national international dialing code, +997, the government said.
Aleksandr Franchetti, a 48-year-old Russian who has spent years in Prague, was arrested by Czech police at the request of Ukraine, which wants to try him for his alleged role in Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014. Who is Franchetti and what was he doing on the Black Sea peninsula in 2014?
Russia's Justice Ministry on August 20 declared the Dozhd television channel (TV Rain) a "foreign agent," part of what Kremlin opponents say is a crackdown on critical media before parliamentary elections next month.
An activist has been jailed for walking around Moscow's Red Square wearing a T-shirt demanding Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's release from prison.
A Minsk court on July 6 fined Current Time’s Belarus correspondent Raman Vasiukovich 870 rubles (around $343) for working without official accreditation and allegedly violating Belarusian law on the “preparation and dissemination of a mass media product.”
Russian opposition politician and former State Duma Deputy Dmitry Gudkov says that he decided to leave Russia after he was warned that his relatives and associates could face arrest if he remained.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijani authorities guilty of torturing blogger Aleksandr Lapshin and trying to kill him in a Baku prison.
City authorities have refused to approve a public exhibition marking the centenary of the late Russian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov.
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