Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty - Free Media in Unfree Societies

Is Nabucco Back On Track?

Recent events have raised hopes that the troubled pipeline is on schedule to deliver non-Russian natural gas to Europe by 2014. More

Sochi Troubles

Russia's preparations for the 2014 Winter Games are coming under fire from environmentalists and workers at the massive site. More

Eurozone Lifeline

Finance ministers have come up with a plan to save Greece from default and ward off euro disaster. More

Tehran Police Out In Force For Festival

More News

RFE/RL Radio
In 28 Languages

Highlights

Blogs

The Power Vertical

Why Kaliningrad Exploded

Transmission

Spare Us, Taliban Brothers!

Persian Letters

Year Of 'Patience And Perseverance'

Watchdog

Kyrgyz Journalist, Opposition Activists Beaten

Caucasus Report

Ingushetia's Police Under Fire Again

More Blogs

You'll Get Mail

Stay on top of developments in RFE/RL's broadcast area by subscribing to our free e-mail newsletters. You'll find the complete list here.

Igor Revin, the Communist Party's branch leader in the western exclave, said the party is quitting because the opposition coalition canceled a mass protest scheduled for March 20. The Communists say that by calling off the protest the opposition has "cheated thousands of its supporters." More

Veteran Tatar Intellectual Laid To Rest

Tatarstan's political, scientific, and cultural elite gathered today in Kazan to honor veteran public figure Mansur Khasanov. More

BBC Outage Amid Kyrgyz 'Clampdown'

The BBC's local-language service in Kyrgyzstan experienced an unexplained interruption today, sparking concerns the U.K.-funded broadcaster might share the fate of other media outlets suffering setbacks there. More

Kyrgyz Police Confiscate Independent Newspaper

The editor of an independent Kyrgyz newspaper says Bishkek police confiscated its latest issue on March 15. More

Accusations Fly Around Kazakh Strike

A former Kazakh banker has accused President Nursultan Nazarbaev's son-in-law of inciting a strike by several thousand workers at an oil facility in southwestern Kazakhstan, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. More

Moldovan Ex-President Accuses Premier Of Smuggling

The leader of Moldova's opposition Communist Party has accused Prime Minister Vlad Filat of smuggling cigarettes into neighboring Romania to pay for his election campaign last year. More

More News

Cultural Capital

Prague's One World Festival Puts Focus On Iran

The One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, which will show over 100 films from 30 countries in Prague from March 10-18, has a special focus on Iran this year. More

'Forbes': Number Of New Billionaires Reflects Global Recovery

"Forbes" magazine's list of the world's billionaires mirrors the global financial recovery. It includes 62 Russians -- nearly twice as many as last year -- most of whom are returning after being knocked off during the economic crisis. More

Sheikh Tantawi, Prominent Sunni Muslim Voice, Dead At 81

One of the most prominent and moderate voices in the Sunni Muslim world -- Sheikh Muhammad Sayed Tantawi -- has died. More

Easier Internet Export Rules Please Google

Internet giant Google has welcomed a U.S. decision to relax restrictions that have prevented U.S. companies from exporting Internet services and software to Iran, Cuba, and Sudan. 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

More Cultural Capital

Iran

Why Is Iran Releasing Some Postelection Detainees?

More Iran

Afghanistan and Pakistan

Kabul Stuck Between U.S., Iranian 'Double Game' Accusations

More Afghanistan

Caucasus

EU Foreign-Policy Chief Showcases Georgia

More Caucasus

Russia

Gorbachev's Legacy Examined, 25 Years After Rise

More Russia

Central Asia

Big Business In Uzbekistan Targeted In Arrests

More Central Asia

East and Southeast Europe

Karadzic Trial, Ganic Extradition Request Awaken Ghosts Of Bosnian War

More Eastern Europe

RFE/RL In The News

'Voices From Afghanistan' Exhibit Profiled In 'The Washington Post'

"The Post's" Style section highlights the exhibit at the Library of Congress, which showcases some of the thousands of handwritten scrolls and letters sent in by listeners to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan. More

Video

A Struggle Against Stoning In Iran

"Women In Shroud," a documentary now showing at the One World human rights film festival in Prague, follows activists' efforts to abolish execution by stoning in Iran. Co-director Mohammad Reza Kazemi, a broadcaster for RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, discusses the challenges of producing a film on this brutal, largely clandestine practice.

More Multimedia