The European Union's executive is set to present an assessment on November 8 of progress made by Ukraine in its membership bid, three officials said, a key step in the bloc's decision on starting accession talks with Kyiv.
Protesters in Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska, defied a ban to gather on October 24 in the city of Banja Luka to voice their disapproval of a controversial draft law that brands nonprofit groups funded from abroad as "foreign agents."
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been placed in punitive solitary confinement, a day after his allies said he was stripped of writing materials his only means of communicating with the outside world.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus issued a license on October 24 for the industrial operation of a second power unit at the Astravets nuclear power plant.