http://www.rferl.org/archive/Transmission/latest/648/648.html Written by RFE/RL editors and correspondents, Transmission serves up news, comment, and the odd silly dictator story. http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo_RFERL.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Transmission/latest/648/648.html en-US Copyright 2010 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:49:11 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL For months now, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been treating his numerous social media followers to a blow-by-blow account of his life. Besides posting posting pictures of mundane activities such as a trip to the dentist, Kadyrov has used the Instagram photo-sharing service to display images of him hanging out in a bathrobe with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and chatting with French actor and tax exile Gerard Depardieu. Now he has added another luminary to his collection of pix. http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-liz-hurley-depardieu/24993183.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-liz-hurley-depardieu/24993183.html Tue, 21 May 2013 18:19:46 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-liz-hurley-depardieu/24993183.html#relatedInfoContainer Forget U.S. missile defense or Syria. What's really got Russia's foreign minister outraged is an alleged voting scandal at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html Tue, 21 May 2013 15:59:50 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html#relatedInfoContainer New York film buffs can get a taste of Eurasia this week as the New York Eurasian Film festival opens. Among the offerings -- a film touting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev’s role in spearheading "green development" as a solution to a “worldwide crisis.” The producer of the film is none other than his youngest daughter, Aliya Nazarbaeva. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-eurasian-film-festival/24991863.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-eurasian-film-festival/24991863.html Mon, 20 May 2013 15:23:09 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-eurasian-film-festival/24991863.html#relatedInfoContainer The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region. http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24991545.html http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24991545.html Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:25 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24991545.html#relatedInfoContainer Chechnya's maverick leader Ramzan Kadyrov is threatening to close his Instagram account after he was criticized for posting a photo of himself standing with an ethnic Chechen convicted for involvement in the killing of a Russian soccer fan in 2010. http://www.rferl.org/content/kadyrov-chechnya-instagram-controversy/24989034.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kadyrov-chechnya-instagram-controversy/24989034.html Fri, 17 May 2013 11:05:12 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/kadyrov-chechnya-instagram-controversy/24989034.html#relatedInfoContainer Russian and American prisoners are facing off in an international online chess competition -- just as ties between the countries fray in the wake of a strange spy scandal in the Russian capital. http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-american-convicts-chess/24986988.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-american-convicts-chess/24986988.html Wed, 15 May 2013 13:16:03 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-american-convicts-chess/24986988.html#relatedInfoContainer The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region. http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24984496.html http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24984496.html Mon, 13 May 2013 10:22:55 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24984496.html#relatedInfoContainer http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/pakistan-elections-live-blog/24982783.html http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/pakistan-elections-live-blog/24982783.html Sat, 11 May 2013 04:07:21 +0000 Transmission The Metropolitan of Montenegro has raised eyebrows in some circles by announcing that he is going to propose a controversial 19th-century prince-bishop for canonization. http://www.rferl.org/content/petrovic-njegos-canonization-controversy-ethnic-cleansing/24981571.html http://www.rferl.org/content/petrovic-njegos-canonization-controversy-ethnic-cleansing/24981571.html Thu, 09 May 2013 15:14:55 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/petrovic-njegos-canonization-controversy-ethnic-cleansing/24981571.html#relatedInfoContainer It’s refreshing to see a compilation of dash-cam videos that captures, not moments of terror, but random acts of kindness across Russia. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-dash-cam-videos-kindness/24979284.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-dash-cam-videos-kindness/24979284.html Tue, 07 May 2013 12:33:25 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-dash-cam-videos-kindness/24979284.html#relatedInfoContainer The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region. http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24977915.html http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24977915.html Mon, 06 May 2013 09:00:50 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24977915.html#relatedInfoContainer One of the world's biggest merchandising powerhouses, the Walt Disney Company, has decided to cut production of trademarked goods in a handful of countries that include Belarus and Pakistan. http://www.rferl.org/content/disney-merchandise-belarus-pakistan-bangladesh/24975655.html http://www.rferl.org/content/disney-merchandise-belarus-pakistan-bangladesh/24975655.html Fri, 03 May 2013 10:02:06 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/disney-merchandise-belarus-pakistan-bangladesh/24975655.html#relatedInfoContainer Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov was this week unanimously voted "Person of the Year" for 2012 by jurors at a ceremony in Grozny, the regional capital. His relative, Islam Kadyrov, the mayor of Grozny, received the "Best Manager" award. http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-person-of-the-year/24975035.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-person-of-the-year/24975035.html Thu, 02 May 2013 14:47:02 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-person-of-the-year/24975035.html#relatedInfoContainer On April 29, as Turkmenistan marked Horse Day, Turkmen state media showed segments from President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov’s win at the horse tracks on April 28. But a video that has since emerged -- along with witness accounts obtained by RFE/RL -- suggests the race ended with the Turkmen leader taking a spectacular fall. http://www.rferl.org/content/turkmenistan-berdymukhammedov-horse-fall/24972976.html http://www.rferl.org/content/turkmenistan-berdymukhammedov-horse-fall/24972976.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:12 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/turkmenistan-berdymukhammedov-horse-fall/24972976.html#relatedInfoContainer The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region. http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24971416.html http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24971416.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:54:21 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/calendar_of_events/24971416.html#relatedInfoContainer Gulnara Karimova's name has mysteriously disappeared from Uzbekistan's official list of ambassadors, prompting speculation that the Uzbek president's daughter no longer represents her country at the United Nations. http://www.rferl.org/content/gulnara-karmova-ambassadorship-/24968755.html http://www.rferl.org/content/gulnara-karmova-ambassadorship-/24968755.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:58:47 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/gulnara-karmova-ambassadorship-/24968755.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijan has unveiled in Kyiv the latest in its tributes to late President Heydar Aliyev, a park in the Ukrainian capital dedicated to the current president's father. http://www.rferl.org/content/heydar-aliyev-personality-cult/24968616.html http://www.rferl.org/content/heydar-aliyev-personality-cult/24968616.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:37:01 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/heydar-aliyev-personality-cult/24968616.html#relatedInfoContainer Young Kazakh director Emir Baigazin continues to impress in the West, with reviewers at this week's Tribeca Film Festival describing his debut film, "Harmony Lessons," in glowing terms. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-tribeca-film-baigazin-director-harmony-lessons/24967456.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-tribeca-film-baigazin-director-harmony-lessons/24967456.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:00:28 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-tribeca-film-baigazin-director-harmony-lessons/24967456.html#relatedInfoContainer A 350-kilogram Tajik flag measuring 60 meters by 30 meters that once flew proudly atop the world’s largest flagpole in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe is now in pieces after strong gusts of wind tore it down. http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-flagpole-strong-winds/24967470.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-flagpole-strong-winds/24967470.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:06:43 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-flagpole-strong-winds/24967470.html#relatedInfoContainer On the heels of the largest KFC in the world in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, comes a spectacular new McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia’s Black Sea port city of Batumi, designed by Harvard-educated architect Giorgi Khmaladze. http://www.rferl.org/content/incredible-mcdonalds-batumi-georgia-architecture/24966153.html http://www.rferl.org/content/incredible-mcdonalds-batumi-georgia-architecture/24966153.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:14:02 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/incredible-mcdonalds-batumi-georgia-architecture/24966153.html#relatedInfoContainer Ramzan Kadyrov has come up with a novel way to punish his subordinates, punching his sports minister in the boxing ring as a way of reprimanding him for his building's "shoddy appearance." http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-boxing-ministers/24966206.html http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-boxing-ministers/24966206.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:41:59 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/chechnya-kadyrov-boxing-ministers/24966206.html#relatedInfoContainer The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra has issued a public call for a conductor who has "a pleasing appearance, [and] owns a dark suit, white shirt, black bow tie, and a rod that can be used as a baton," RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia-orchestra-humor/24966012.html http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia-orchestra-humor/24966012.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:27:44 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia-orchestra-humor/24966012.html#relatedInfoContainer