As the US dollar tanks value amid tariff turmoil, Central Asian migrant workers are benefitting from a surging Russian ruble – bringing a huge boost in remittances sent home.

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 17th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.

A Russian drone attack hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region on April 23, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, local ...

Russian film critic Yekaterina Barabash, under house arrest for opposing the war in Ukraine, has gone missing. Authorities ...

Will the US recognize Crimea as Russian? Is NATO membership out of the question for Kyiv? Will Ukraine’s largest nuclear ...

Farmers in Uzbekistan allege they are being forced to cede fertile land to Chinese businesses under pressure from local ...

Ukrainian rescuers discovered a shaken but spirited canine survivor in the ruins of a Sumy region home following overnight ...

You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on April 22, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.

Belarusian comedian “Evil Sasha” turns trauma into dark humor on stage in Vilnius. Scarred by a fire and injured in 2020 protests, she fled to Lithuania. Now her sharp jokes blend laughter with the ...

Sasha Hushcha suffered severe burns early in life and endured bullying in childhood. In 2022, she left her native Belarus for Lithuania because she feared political persecution. Today, she's mining ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88.

Outraged patriotic bloggers and the tabloid press in Russia are warning the country's soldiers about scams from so-called "black widows" -- women who seduce and lure the fighters into marriage so ...