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A substantial majority of states now issue some form of biometric identity—most passports and many embed fingerprints, face templates or chips—but a meaningful minority of countries either do not issu...
None of the three countries — , and — are shown in the provided reporting to mandatorily collect from their citizens or residents for domestic identity schemes beyond the biometric requirements tied t...
Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...
Across the eight countries named, publicly available comparative reporting shows clear variation: , and do not issue national identity cards (which reduces—but does not eliminate—routine biometric enr...
Pew Research’s 2011 projections (widely cited and summarized by other outlets) predict the largest percentage increases in Muslim shares by 2030 will occur in several smaller and northern European cou...
All three countries issue and are swept into ’s expanding biometric border architecture, but they differ sharply on domestic national ID cards and publicly documented e‑service biometric schemes: issu...
Estimates place roughly six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust, with the largest regional shares concentrated in Eastern Europe—Poland alone accounting for about three million deaths—and large num...
Andriy (Andrii) Naumov, a former SBU internal‑security chief stripped of his rank in April 2022, fled Ukraine the night the full‑scale invasion began and has since been linked to investigations for il...
explicitly mandates collection of biometric information—photographs, fingerprints and iris scans—under the when an individual applies for a visa, and the country has recently introduced a to govern br...
The precise label 1a1b1a1a1c2b2 does not appear in the supplied reporting, so the sources cannot identify which modern population “scores the highest” for that exact subclade; however, the broader in ...
Multiple protests are happening in Sofia on 26 November 2025 tied to several overlapping causes: planned evening demonstrations by the opposition coalition Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (C...
Multiple independent journalists and social-media users—most prominently threads and spot-analyses shared on X/Twitter—triggered the allegation that many MAGA-branded accounts are “foreign‑run” after ...
European Muslim populations vary widely: some countries are Muslim-majority or have very large Muslim shares in the Balkans and parts of Russia (e.g., Kosovo ~93.5%, Albania ~83.2% projected for 2030)...
Existing analyses show in the provided material identifying which NGOs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Albania receive direct U.S. or EU grants specifically...