Moscow City Hall is repaving large parts of Moscow in a move being scrutinized due to the mayor's wife's supposed ties with the paving business.
Protest season continues, Putin's "patches," and the world's longest cross-sea bridges.
A handful of suicide bombers and gunmen mounted an overnight attack on the luxury Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Kabul on June 28-29, killing 10 and injuring at least eight others before being killed by Afghan and international forces.
On June 25, about 100,000 pilgrims celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first appearance of what are described as apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the southern Bosnian town of Medjugorje. Since 1981, more than 40 million people have visited the shrine.
Author and photographer Frederic Chaubin talks about his decade-long quest to visit and document examples of grand -- but often forgotten -- Soviet architecture dating from the 1970s and 1980s. "Powerful and dreamlike," the buildings defy the idea of "the post-Soviet world seen in terms of decay." Chaubin has assembled his work into a new book.
Belarusian riot police have broken up a protest organized on the Internet against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the capital, Minsk, detaining scores of demonstrators.
Prominent Soviet-era Russian dissident Yelena Bonner passed away on June 18 at the age of 88.
A swan stops traffic in England, Greek demonstrations, Syrian refugees, a heatwave in Lahore and a mortar attack in Afghanistan.
A Toast, A Tree, A Movie Star, And A Camel Caravan
Pictures from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, where commemoration ceremonies have been held to mark the first anniversary of ethnic clashes between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, which left 470 people dead.
RFE/RL correspondent Daisy Sindelar is reporting all week from Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, where residents and authorities are commemorating the victims of ethnically charged bloodshed a year ago that killed some 470 people. You can follow her tweets at @DaisySindelar.
Violence in Yemen, protests in Spain and Germany, last space shuttle mission, Obama in Poland, and Ratko Mladic makes his first court appearance in The Hague.
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