Quoted by the Interfax news agency on December 22, Lavrov said that Russia planned to respond to the new measures
Court in Tehran reduced the length of the jail terms from 18 to five years for each journalist
Comments by Yury Harauski add fuel to long-standing accusations that security forces under President Alexander Lukashenko were involved in the disappearance of opposition leader Viktor Gonchar, businessman Anatoly Krasovsky, and two other men in 1999 and 2000
A statement says recent congressional action to recognize the Armenian genocide does not reflect Trump administration policy
A total of 389 journalists were held for reasons connected to their profession at the start of December, 12 percent more than the number held on the same date last year
Critics say law is used to muzzle dissent, discourage the free exchange of ideas and a free press
Demonstrators decry deteriorating media freedoms in the Balkan country under populist President Aleksandar Vucic
The four-way talks in so-called Normandy Format is first time heads of Ukraine and Russia have met since 2016
The draft budget comes with pressure mounting from U.S. sanctions and Iranians still reeling from a deadly crackdown last month on street unrest sparked by fuel rationing and a cut in subsidies
German federal prosecutors have taken over the case of the slaying of an ethnic Chechen Georgian national in Berlin amid allegations of Russian involvement
Protests erupted on November 15 after the government announced a fuel price hike of up to 200 percent but were quickly stifled by security forces
The new law gives authorities the power to label reporters who work for organizations officially listed as ‘foreign agents’ as foreign agents themselves
Tech giant criticized for displaying Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia on maps and weather apps for Russian users
Young, elderly and people with respiratory illnesses are warned to stay indoors; all sports activities are suspended
All 110 seats in the lower house of the National Assembly being contested by more than 500 candidates
Aleksei Burkov is suspected of stealing more than $20 million from US consumers through credit card fraud
The Russian Investigative Committee said a 63-year-old man was rescued from the Moika River near the city center early on Saturday with a woman's arms and a gun in the backpack
Armed with 12 empty beer bottles, a canister of kerosene, and an 8mm video camera, two brothers hit back at the Berlin Wall.
Rasmiya Awad, 65, was reportedly found during a raid Nov. 4 near the Turkish-controlled town of Azaz, in Syria’s Aleppo province
In its report, the rights group called on the Afghan government to immediately disband all pro-government paramilitary groups that operate outside the ordinary military chain of command
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