The leadership of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has asked one of its lawmakers to clarify a report that he received money from a pro-Russian news portal.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on April 3 about the importance of advancing the peace process between Baku and Armenia, a State Department spokesman said.
North Korea and Iran's military support for Russia has serious global security consequences that the 32-member NATO alliance cannot ignore, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on April 3.
One of Kyrgyzstan’s first online news websites, 24.kg, reported on April 3 that the State Committee for National Security (UKMK) has suspended a criminal case against it.
Police in St. Petersburg have opened a probe into the disappearance of a Chechen woman whose whereabouts have been unknown since August when she was sent back to Chechnya, where rights defenders say she may have been the victim of a so-called honor killing.
Several devices designed during the Cold War to kill, injure, or record adversaries might have been dismissed as urban legends if examples had not been documented in photos.
Kazakhstan's Qazaq Air has suspended flights for an unspecified period from the Central Asian nation's northwestern city of Aqtobe to the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kyrgyz authorities to repeal a controversial "foreign representatives" law that the Central Asian nation’s President Sadyr Japarov signed on April 2, saying it is a replica of a repressive Russian law on "foreign agents."
The Vyasna human rights center in Belarus said on April 3 that the Minsk regional court sentenced a 57-year-old man to six years in prison for sending money to two opposition groups.
Prosecutors have asked a court in Perm to sentence Aleksandr Chernyshov, the chief of the Center of Historic Memory, the successor entity of the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial human rights group, to three years in prison on a charge of "attempting to smuggle cultural artifacts."
Schoolchildren in Bosnia-Herzegovina have long been taught a sanitized version of the terrible tragedies of the 1990s, largely to avoid biased narratives. A Serbian veterans’ group is trying to change that.
Russian opposition activist and Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Skobov was arrested late on April 2 in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on a charge of promoting terrorism, his associates said.
Georgia's ruling party says it will reintroduce a controversial "foreign agent" bill that was pulled last year amid massive protests over fears the legislation, which mirrored a similar law in Russia, would severely restrict dissent and the activity of civil society groups.
A U.S. intelligence warning to Moscow two weeks ahead of a deadly March 22 terrorist attack included specific reference to the Crocus City Hall concert venue that was targeted, The Washington Post reported on April 2.
Police in London say a March 29 stabbing of an Iranian journalist is being investigated by the Counter Terrorism Command, although investigators have not established a motive.
The operator of Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea on April 2 denied reports of an oil spill and said its facilities were working normally.