RFE/RL President Jamie Fly lambastes 'ridiculous label'
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry says seven of its soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded while Armenia says dozens of its service members have gone missing
Russian authorities have been accused of increasingly cracking down on independent media outlets, civil society groups, rights activists, and others, labeling them as 'undesirable' or 'foreign agents'
Vulgar posts on the service's Telegram channel carried threats of beheadings and sexual assaults, some with pornographic images
Amnesty International says Russia, China, and many other countries have put in place 'oppressive laws' that have restricted right to freedom of expression and silenced critics during coronavirus pandemic
Announcement comes after talks in Tehran between Rafael Grossi, head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and Mohammad Eslami, head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
They are accused of raising funds for organizations deemed by the authorities as 'extremist'
Authorities have frozen all Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAZh) bank accounts following police raids on its offices last week
US Congress has twice passed sanctions legislation to stop project, with overwhelming bipartisan support
Police detained Ales Dashchynski July 16 after his apartment in Minsk was searched, and his computer, telephone, a hard drive, several flash memory sticks, and a bank card were confiscated, relatives say
It was second straight day of country's latest crackdown on independent press critical of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko
Move comes amid vehement criticism from congressional Republicans about the White House's earlier announcement that it would exempt the pipeline's Russian-owned operator in the new sanctions
EU spokesman called the blocking of the popular news site an 'act of continued repression and intimidation' against independent media
European Union calls on Moscow to repeal its controversial law
President Putin, in an address, vowed that Russia will defend its national interests and denounced what he asserted was the return of 'Russophobia'
Uladzimer Yanukevich, the chief editor of the independent Intex-press newspaper in the western city of Baranavichy, was questioned at a local police department for 4 1/2 hours over the interview, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAZh) said on April 22
Officials stop European news network from broadcasting inside country amid campaign to muzzle independent media and journalists
The jailed Kremlin critic has been moved to a sick ward after complaining of a cough and temperature
Natalia Sedletska, who hosts the award-winning investigative TV program Schemes, has been locked in a three-year effort to protect her phone data from seizure by Ukrainian prosecutors investigating a leak of state secrets nearly four years ago.
President Joe Biden has said he believed his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was a killer
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