Uzbekistan's State Security Service (DXX) said on February 7 that its department in the southeastern region of Samarkand had arrested a 27-year-old resident of the city of Bukhara on a charge of organizing illegal immigration to the United States via Mexico and the European Union.
A court in Minsk has sentenced a leader of the Polish-Belarusian community, noted journalist Andrzej Poczobut, to eight years in prison for criticizing Belarus's authoritarian ruler, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and his regime.
Washington - U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States faces serious challenges around the world, but in the past two years, democracies have beco
the fear is, without them, russia s advance might not stop at soledar. james waterhouse, bbc news, kyiv. elizabeth shackelford is a senior fellow on us foreign policy at the chicago council on global affairs. i asked her what she makes of the russian victory announcement in soledar. it is hard to independently verify if russia has taken soledar at this point, but making the assumption that they have, it is contested but they have certainly been been making gains there, i would disagree with russia s claimed that this is a strategic victory. it is certainly a tactical step to overrunning bakhmut which is part of the overall plan of taking the donbas but not a big step along that path. but what i find more notable