Russian Skinheads On Trial For Attacks

Three Russian skinheads jailed for murdering at least 20 Central Asian migrants have gone on trial for attempted murder. More

Azerbaijani FM Meets With Minsk Co-chairs

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov says Baku accepts "with some exceptions" the revised "Madrid Principles" for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. More

Balkars Mark Deportation To Central Asia

The Soviet-era deportation of Balkars by Soviet leader Josef Stalin was commemorated today in Nalchik, the capital of Russia's North Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. More

Ukraine Debates Fining Bad Behavior On Public Transport

The Ukrainian parliament is discussing a bill that would impose fines for inconsiderate behavior while using public transportation, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. More

Well-Known Russian Historian Sergo Mikoyan Dies

Prominent Russian historian and journalist Sergo Mikoyan has died in a Moscow clinic of leukemia. More

Iraq Film Snags Pioneering Award Win

The Academy Awards broke new ground on March 7 by giving its best director award to a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, for her film "The Hurt Locker," a story about the dangerous lives of U.S. bomb disposal experts in the Iraq conflict. More

Kyrgyz Alpine Lake's Beauty Could Be Its Undoing

The popularity of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul is now threatening the high-altitude lake's future. An international financial institution and the Kyrgyz government are trying to combat the threat. More

Author Of Critical Kapuscinski Bio Defends His Account Of 'A Complicated Man'

Ryszard Kapuscinski is something of a national hero in Poland, and a writer of high regard in the rest of the world. But now a former colleague, journalist Artur Domoslawski, has published a biography of him which casts a negative light on much of his writing. More

Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Tajikistan's Economic Dreams

Tajikistan's contribution to global warming is minimal, with only a handful of factories and just one in 10 households owning a car. But its rapidly shrinking glaciers have it being ranked among the countries hardest hit by climate change. More