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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries.
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Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent who served as prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh from November 2022 to February 2023, has ended a hunger strike in a Baku prison, his family said on April 25 ..read more
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Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit China in May. Putin announced the plans on April 25 at a congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow ..read more
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11h ago
The U.S. Treasury Department on April 25 issued further sanctions targeting companies that manufacture, sell, and ship Iranian drones as part of an effort to curb their use by Russia in its full-scale war in Ukraine ..read more
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Ukraine's agriculture minister offered to resign on April 25 after he was named as a suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption investigation ..read more
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 25 that in the interest of the country's national defense it is possible to nationalize industrial facilities ..read more
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RFE/RL has been given exclusive access to a Ukrainian thermal power plant that was badly damaged after Russian missile attacks in late March. Officials reveal the extent of the damage and explain how Ukraine's largest private energy firm has lost five out of six plants and 80 percent of its electrical output ..read more
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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told RFE/RL that his country is open for deeper partnership with Kazakhstan ..read more
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Georgia has been slammed for trying to pass a Russian-style “foreign agent” law, while recent tax changes that critics warn will attract dirty money and offer the ruling Georgian Dream party’s founder and the country’s richest man, Bidzina Ivanishvili, a way to repatriate his offshore wealth ..read more
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14h ago
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes worth $10 billion, according to Russian media. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Analysts weigh in on what's behind Ivanov's arrest and why it could weaken his boss, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ..read more
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16h ago
A Sarajevo exhibition is providing women a voice as to why they made the perilous journey to cross the Mediterranean in search of a better life. Members of Doctors Without Borders iMn Bosnia spoke to women who told them they underwent forced marriages, prostitution, and psychological torture ..read more