Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered the latest in a long series of fiery warnings to the West, but sent more pragmatic signals to Washington on nuclear arms negotiations and the upcoming U.S. election. Plus, a nondenial denial on the poisoning of Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny.
A publishing house in Tajikistan has been awarded a lucrative government contract in a dubiously conducted tender by the public procurement agency. An RFE/RL investigation has revealed that the firm is linked to President Rahmon’s son-in-law and that another close relative oversaw the bidding.
An unveiled woman who rode a bicycle in a conservative Iranian city has prompted protests from hard-liners.
Russian military intelligence was in close contact with the head of a state research institute who coordinated with scientists specializing in chemistry and nanotechnologies in the weeks before the 2018 poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal, according to newly obtained phone records.
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new Borat mockumentary has ruffled feathers in the Central Asian country, even ahead of its online October 23 premiere.
Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
After a Polish law came into force banning monuments that “symbolize or propagate” totalitarianism, RFE/RL's photographer documented some of the country's Soviet memorials. Three years on, he revisited the same locations to see what remains.
At least two women have publicly claimed they underwent sterilization after being threatened by doctors at a state-run residential facility in Yekaterinburg.
U.S. researchers say websites in North Macedonia are gathering ad money by pretending to be conservative Americans and spreading disinformation ahead of next month's U.S. presidential election.
Iranians have taken to social media to highlight shortages of insulin pens, blaming Iran's leadership and U.S. sanctions.
Less than four months are left before the last remaining restraint on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals is set to evaporate. New signals from Moscow and Washington point to the potential extension of the New START treaty. But will there be a deal before the U.S. election?
Two months into the abrupt cancellation due in some schools of classes normally offered in Russian, students and parents are struggling to adjust. And Turkmen authorities apparently don't want to hear about their problems.
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