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I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak and this week I'm drilling down on two major issues: whether Bulgaria and Romania could join Croatia in…
Kyrgyz Education Minister Almaz Beishenaliev has been detained on charges of taking bribes in connection with student admissions to the Central…
Anti-government protests have erupted in Tehran and other cities for a 10th night over the death of a young Iranian woman after a reported beati…
The governor of western Iranian province of Kurdistan has confirmed that three people were killed in the province during protests over the death…
A proposal by European Union members to ban tourist visas to Russians over the war in Ukraine appeared to hit a major hurdle as the bloc's minis…
Belarusian blogger and critic Syarhey Tsikhanouski was the first person arrested in Alyaksandr Lukashenka's heavy-handed crackdown leading up to…
Iran has been holding a Belgian man for the past four months on "espionage" charges, Belgium's justice minister has said, as the country conside…
Tehran says it summoned Sweden's ambassador over "baseless and false allegations" made against a former Iranian official, Hamid Nouri, at a tria…
U.S. President Joe Biden has visited U.S. troops near the Polish border with Ukraine amid signals from Moscow that the Kremlin has scaled back i…
From conflicting casualty figures to Ukrainian counterattacks, former Austrian defense official Gustav Gressel explains why Moscow’s initial str…
Bulgaria's defense chief says there is no need to deploy NATO troops in the Southeast European country in response to Russia's troop buildup nea…
A diplomatic spat between Lithuania and China over Taiwan could have ripple effects across the region for how EU countries -- from the Baltic st…
Poland has accused Belarus of staging an “attack” on its eastern border and Russian President Vladimir Putin of orchestrating an intensifying mi…
A secret base in Tajikistan, digging into Hungary’s China-financed railway, NATO eyes Beijing, and Chinese business goes local in Central Asia.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Ukraine must remain a transit country for Russian natural-gas exports during her final tour of European…
Hungary's Justice Minister has called European Union authorities “arrogant” after its executive arm asked the EU's top court to impose financial…
President Egils Levits spoke to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on August 23 on the sidelines of an International C…
A bus traveling from Germany to Kosovo swerved off the road and crashed near the Croatian city of Slavonski Brod early on July 25, killing at le…