We know that rferl.org isn’t the only website you read, and it’s possible that you may have missed some of our most interesting journalism from the past week. To make sure you’re up-to-date, here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL’s team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
A U.S.-Taliban deal aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan is threatening to unravel over two key issues: a major prisoner exchange and a reduction of violence. By Frud Bezhan
A Russian charity that works with disabled children in the Karelia region has received a government grant to build a mock-up of a World War II-era Finnish prisoner-of-war camp. The group plans to begin bringing children to the proposed “museum” in time for the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in May. By Sergei Markelov and Robert Coalson
A woman who claims to be the sister-in-law of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is parading her pampered life on Instagram. By RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service
Decades ago, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev proposed building a Soviet version of Disneyland — of course, one that was bigger and better than the American original. Fast forward to the present, and that Cold War dream has become a reality. By Mark Krutov and Tony Wesolowsky
Since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, numerous false claims have been made by Russian officials and media about what happened. As the trial of four suspects begins in the Netherlands, we examine how Russian disinformation went into overdrive after the deaths of the plane’s 298 passengers and crew. By Ray Furlong
Several Russian investors have owned costly condos at 20 Pine Street, a former bank building in Manhattan’s financial district. Among them: the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin; a businessman whose money intermingled with the massive alleged tax fraud exposed by whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky; and a Moscow home builder who co-invested in a casino business with President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen. By Todd Prince
A Pakistani lawyer who set up a cyber-harassment help line for women in the predominantly Muslim country says she continues to receive calls from women who face threats and abuse for going online, including from women who fear being killed by male relatives for using the Internet. Nighat Dad established the help line in 2016 with prize money from a Dutch human rights award. By AFP and Neil Bowder
An ousted Moldovan oligarch hit with a U.S. entry ban due to corruption concerns has spent time in the United States in recent months, before and after the restriction order, according to Moldovan and U.S. officials. Vlad Plahotniuc’s presence in the United States, described by multiple people to RFE/RL, has anti-corruption experts and other observers worried. By Mike Eckel and Liliana Barbarosie
Eighty years after Stalin signed off on the execution of 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia rounded up in Soviet-occupied Poland, the “Katyn lie” blaming the mass killing on Nazi Germany is enjoying new life on social media. And many who accept Soviet responsibility for the crime are in no mood to apologize as Moscow and Warsaw continue to wrangle over the narrative of World War II. By Michael Scollon
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