Eugen Tomiuc is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
The United Nations’ refugee agency, the UNHCR, has criticized European countries over a buildup of 24,000 refugees in Greece, saying governments are not working together to address the migrant crisis and are imposing new border restrictions that violate the law.
Interior ministers from the European Union, Turkey, and the Balkans held fresh talks on February 25 amid major differences over ways to contain an escalating migrant crisis.
Amnesty International has warned that human rights and the laws and institutions meant to protect them are under threat around the world from an "insidious and creeping trend" among governments that are deliberately attacking or neglecting them.
A breakaway splinter of land laden with post-Soviet disaffection and aging heavy industry wedged among dysfunctional economies hardly sounds like a winning formula for exchange-rate tranquility.
Moldovan prosecutors say Russian-backed separatists in southeastern Ukraine have been hiring Moldovan mercenaries to fight on their side, sometimes promising as much as $3,000 monthly.
Hundreds of schools have been destroyed during the war in eastern Ukraine, including many that were used for military purposes by both sides in the conflict, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov has lashed out at homosexuality, calling it a "vulgar" manifestation of Western culture, in a new attack against gays in the former Soviet Union.
One of the pro-Moscow leaders of recent antigovernment protests in Moldova has made anti-U.S. remarks that appear to be aimed at tapping into east-west tensions to whip up support for early elections that could boost Kremlin influence in his country.
A diplomatic ruckus is brewing between Russia and Kyrgyzstan following reports that Russian officials rescued two ethnic-Russian children in the Central Asian country from organ traffickers.
Moldova's embattled ruling coalition says it will soon call for a referendum on direct presidential elections, a moderate concession to demonstrators who have held several large antigovernment protests over the past week.
With pro-Russia and pro-EU parties uniting to take down the government, some see only one winner -- Moscow.
Opposition protesters on January 22 continued their push for early elections in Moldova, demanding the resignation of a newly appointed pro-European government.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Moldova's capital for a second-straight day on January 21, calling for sweeping reforms amid widespread anger against what is perceived as a profoundly corrupt political elite.
Protesters have entered Moldova's parliament building, shortly after lawmakers voted in a new pro-EU government.
Officials in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Faryab say a young woman in a remote village has had her nose cut off by her husband.
The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing an Armenian family of seven has resumed in Armenia's northwestern city of Gyumri.
The Romanian president's fears of a political crisis could be realized now that the country's prime minister has rejected calls to step down after he was indicted for corruption.
A FIFA-sponsored, star-studded film is poised for U.S. release, but it arrives too late to salvage the battered image of world football's governing body or its embattled boss, Sepp Blatter.
Romanian forensic specialists say they have found the burnt remains that may have come from masterpieces stolen last year from a Dutch art gallery. The remains were found in the oven of a woman whose son is one of several people charged with stealing seven multimillion-dollar paintings -- including a Matisse, a Picasso, and a Monet.
Both the United States and the EU see a free trade agreement as the way to jump-start their economies. So why does Europe’s film industry want out?
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