The Taliban Chief has replaced Health Minister Qalandar Ebad, the Cabinet’s only technocrat, with a hard-line cleric. Many predict the move will further strain Afghanistan's healthcare system.

Read more from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Abubakar Siddique in the “Azadi Briefing.”
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How will this month's elections impact the political makeup of the European Parliament? And how will they affect the EU widely?

Read more from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Rikard Jozwiak in the latest 'Wider Europe Briefing.'
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In the latest Majlis Podcast, Bruce Pannier talks to Syinat Sultanalieva and Bakhtiyor Safarov about Tajikistan's ongoing repression of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, or GBAO.
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CHM Michael McCaul: 'Today marks one year since Alsu Kurmasheva, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, was taken hostage by the Kremlin. Putin has kept Alsu from her family for simply doing her job as a journalist. No more delays: Travel - State Dept must designate her as wrongfully detained.”

Journalism is not a crime, yet Putin's regime continues to unjustly target those who speak truth to power.

American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva should be free, just like Evan Gershkovich and all other wrongfully detained U.S. citizens.
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In the latest “Wider Europe Briefing” from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Rikard Jozwiak, Georgia’s controversial “foreign agent” law threatens relations with the EU and its membership bid, and NATO’s foreign ministers prepare for a yearly “informal” ministerial meeting to discuss aid to Ukraine.

How do you tell if an image on your feed has been photoshopped or manipulated? This video is the next installment in our News Hygiene Series with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , in which we are sharing simple skillsets that anyone can use to help clean up their feeds from #fakenews and #disinformation

Today, June 2, marks one year since #Alsu was detained at Kazan airport and prevented from returning to her family in Europe after a two-week stay in Russia. This is the last selfie Alsu took with her kids a few days before her trip to Russia.

The Russian authorities had known

Georgia’s Dream Party overrode President Zurabishvili’s veto on the “foreign agent” law. NGOs and online media with more than 20% of funding coming from a “foreign power” will have to register or risk fines, reports Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Georgian Service Radio Tavisupleba.
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Amid a new mobilization law, Ukranian men are attempting various ways of fleeing to avoid the draft, including document forgery, impersonation, and dangerous border crossings through mountainous regions or rivers:

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.Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Ihar Losik is held incommunicado in a Belarusian prison, serving an unjust, 15-year sentence.

Before his communication with the outside world was cut off, Ihar would send his family letters and drawings.

Here is some of his artwork, preserved by Viasna:

Georgia has announced a Chinese consortium will build its first deep-sea port in Anaklia, ending a multiyear political struggle over the project and highlighting the country’s growing ties with China. Read more from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Reid Standish:

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Yesterday, Russia extended Alsu Kurmasheva's pre-trial detention.

The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist is held hostage by Putin's regime.

This weekend and on #GlobalRunningDay , we're running for Alsu. Join us!

#RunForAlsu

📢 Applications open today for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Regional Reporting Fellowship.

The opportunity is open to journalists from Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine: about.rferl.org/rfe-rl-fellows…

As the former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Roger D. Carstens & NSA, I’m very concerned that US journalist Alsu Kurmasheva hasn’t yet been designated as “wrongfully detained” by the State Dept. She’s been unjustly held in a Russian prison for 8 months & needs Amb Carstens on the case! about.rferl.org/article/russia…

Full solidarity with #AlsuKurmasheva , a Russian-American Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist wrongfully detained in #Russia since October 2023. Her pre-trial detention was extended again to 5 August. We urge her immediate release #FreeAlsu : pen-international.org/news/russian-f…

CPJ strongly denounced a #Russian court’s Friday decision to extend the pretrial detention of U.S.-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until August 5 and called for her immediate release.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyPress Pavel Butorin

#FreeAlsu

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#Russia : Court in Kazan extends custody of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor #AlsuKurmasheva until August 5. Russian American journalist has been detained for over 7 months. #WPF vehemently denounces decision, journalist is being held on bogus charges. Alsu should be freed immediately & allowed to