Sanctions

Alexei Aleksin and Alexander Zaytsev have emerged as two of the wealthiest businessmen in Belarus. What are they doing in...

The U.S. State Department banned one of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoisky, from entering the United States...

Less than a week after the EU sanctioned a number of Russian officials allegedly responsible for the persecutions of...

A U.S.-based research institute has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of using a loan from a state-owned bank...

Ignoring international calls for his release, Russian authorities transferred opposition leader Alexei Navalny to an unknown...

The European Union will for the first time use a new mechanism against human rights abusers to punish Russian officials...

As the Arab Spring rippled across the region in 2011, Syrians took to the streets to protest government corruption and call...

Authorities in The Netherlands have dismantled an alleged criminal syndicate suspected of a complex multi-year,...

Myanmar’s military has used rubber bullets, tear gas, water cannons and recently live ammunition against anti-coup...

Authorities in the Ivory Coast have detained four and rescued 42 in a sting against an alleged human trafficking operation...

A Hong Kong company has cut ties with Myanmar’s military, which staged a coup last week, terminating its contract to upgrade...

A Lebanese activist and Hezbollah critic was found dead in his car on Thursday morning with five gunshot wounds in his body,...