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The United States and Russia have agreed to press ahead with arms control and related strategic security talks aimed at easing tensions between the world's largest nuclear weapons powers.https://www.rferl.org/a/us-russia-arms-control/31486515.html …

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attended the inauguration of a railway link in Serbia and a bridge in neighboring Bosnia.https://www.rferl.org/a/von-der-leyen-balkans/31486504.html …

The same day he asked Russian prosecutors to declare another journalist a “foreign agent,” Aleksandr Ionov posted an image of himself sitting before his desk at a laptop, a large tobacco pipe in his mouth. “The investigation continues,” he wrote.https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-foreign-agent-law-aleksandr-ionov/31486427.html …

An arms dealer was also arrested and both men are accused of defrauding the state of nearly 2.3 billion drams ($4.7 million).https://www.rferl.org/a/former-armenian-defense-chief-arrested-in-fraud-probe/31486360.html …

Valentina Chupik has said that she might be jailed, tortured, and even killed while in custody if she is deported back to her homeland.https://www.rferl.org/a/valentina-chupik-asylum-ukraine/31486306.html …

Mass killings of Jews, Roma, and others the Nazis considered "undesirables" took place in towns and villages across occupied Ukraine -- and vary from the single digits to the tens of thousands.https://www.rferl.org/a/babyn-yars-ukrainian-jews/31486189.html …

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said she feared for her safety if she returned to Belarus from Tokyo.https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-olympics-sprinter-investigation/31485940.html …

Kosovo's government deployed special police forces to two border crossings to impose a new rule on vehicle registration, while Serbian military jets and helicopters flew over the border in an apparent show of force.https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-serbia-border-agreement/31485862.html …

Police confiscated Dobrokhotov's passport in July, but he still managed to leave the country and is currently abroad. His wife and children remain in Moscow.https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-insider-editor-searches/31485849.html …

The 2018 fire was one of the deadliest in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kemerovo-fire-convictions/31485826.html …

Aleksandr Gabyshev first made headlines in March 2019, when he called Vladimir Putin "evil" and announced that he had started a march to Moscow to drive the Russian president from office.https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-shaman-punitive-psychiatric/31485788.html …

"While the individual in question has not been named by any official source, we can confirm that the individual reported in the media was an EPAM employee," the company said in the statement.https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-shooting-us-employee/31485641.html …

It was not immediately clear if Taganova still faces deportation.https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmenistan-critic-released-turkey/31485540.html …

Russia says it has put the approval of a number of panels or individual experts on hold because of a lack of geographic diversity on the committees and says they have a Western bias.https://www.rferl.org/a/ruusia-blocking-un-africa/31485308.html …

Both Kosovo and Serbia must improve mutual relations if they want to join the EU. Representatives of the two countries are meeting in Brussels this week, facilitated by EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak.https://www.rferl.org/a/leyen-kosovo-serbia-reconciliation/31484674.html …

“The country is becoming more and more like a besieged fortress,” said Vladimir Sungorkin, the longtime editor in chief of the Russian Komsomolskaya Pravda. "It's getting tougher, tougher, and tougher there," he added.https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-komsomolskaya-pravda--blocked/31484656.html …

The European Union needs a stable and prosperous eastern neighborhood, and reforms in Moldova are important for the entire region, said Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose two-day visit is the first-ever by a German president to the Eastern European country.https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-german-president-reform/31484648.html …

OVD-Info has been noted for its coverage of arrests during protests in Russia, while Mediazona specializes in covering Russian courts and the rights of prisoners.https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-mediazona-ovd-foreign-agents/31484622.html …