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The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

All the defendants are strident government critics, but their dissidence was confined to online attacks and tiny street protests.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.

No real opposition parties were permitted to run.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

The president says the vote will marking a turning point. Skeptics yawn.

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.

Confusion and contradiction are at the heart of the government’s counter-disinformation strategy.

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.

Kazakh activists are outraged at how their government kowtows to Beijing.

234,000 pneumonia cases from earlier this year will not be included in the tally.

City authorities said they hoped the feast would cheer up frontline medical workers.

As coronavirus cripples the territory’s tourism season and Russia has stopped sending aid, Abkhazia faces a 10 percent GDP decline this year.