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Turkmenistan's authoritarian president announced the end to free gas, electricity, water, and salt -- winning applause and lavish praise from the rubber-stamp People's Assembly.
A laundromat for the homeless is facing opposition in Moscow.
Rallies organized by the Communist Party were held across Russia on September 22 to protest unpopular pension-reform proposals.
A Kazakh pensioner has spent 30 years building a medieval-style castle in the mountains near Almaty. He says it was his childhood dream.
Protesters tried to force their way into the parliament building in Kyiv, during a demonstration to ease rules on Ukrainian citizenship for foreigners who fought against Russia-backed separatists.
The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia.
An art exhibit in Kyiv focuses on LGBT people who have served in the conflict in the country's east. One ex-soldier who took part in the project says it breaks taboos by showing gay and lesbian soldiers as defenders of the country.
Russian police used force to break up peaceful protests across the country on September 9. Thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against planned pension reforms that would raise the retirement age. Some protesters were beaten and more than 1,000 people were detained, including children.
Thousands of Russians across the country have protested the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
Russian high school students are unable to buy books needed for school by some of the country's greatest writers, due to a profanity law signed by Vladimir Putin in 2014.
After Lithuania declared independence in 1990, new borders appeared between the country and the neighboring Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Residents of one building in the Kaliningrad town of Sovetsk found themselves living inside the border zone, cut off from their neighbors by a checkpoint.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has declared that Israel "will try to destroy any Iranian military presence on the territory of Syria." He has also said he hopes that "reasonable people will take the power in Iran." Lieberman spoke on September 4 in Tel Aviv to RFE/RL's Radio Farda and Current Time -- a Russian-language digital network produced by RFE/RL in cooperation with Voice of America.
Israel's defense chief has warned that his country will seek to "destroy any Iranian military presence" in Syria, where Tehran has intervened to prop up its ally President Bashar al-Assad in a war that has lasted more than seven-years.
Most people we spoke to on the streets of Yekaterinburg were not impressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's concessions on pension reform plans. Putin suggested raising the state pension age by five years to 60 years for women, instead of the earlier proposed eight-year hike.
Vasily Ozerov has been traveling around Russia in his tractor-powered mobile home for 40 years. “I'm probably the happiest man on Earth," he says. "I have the road ahead of me.”
Residents of Astana were furious after the Kazakh capital was hit by two days of flooding.
Students at a school near the front line in eastern Ukraine received military training as part of a program to promote "patriotic education."
A crowd of Czechs marked the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia with a protest outside the Russian embassy in Prague.
Two teenage girls charged with plotting to overthrow the Russian government were transfered from detention to house arrest. An agent for the FSB security service was a key organizer in their group.
People are still appealing to Russian authorities to release the bodies of their loved ones, six months after an air crash killed 71 people. Warning -- contains disturbing content.
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