The U.S. State Department now requires visa applicants to identify the social-media platforms they use, including Facebook and Instagram. It could cause foreigners to refrain from commenting on anything for fear it may impact their chances of getting a U.S. visa.
Following a deadly brawl that reportedly pitted hundreds of Roma against other locals in a Russian village, the regional governor accused America and social-media provocateurs of attempting to use the situation to sow panic.
Apparently playing on a prominent media host's remarks likening those protesting plans to build a church in a Yekaterinburg park to demons, a road sign welcomes travelers to the "City of Demons."
A photo archive reveals epic historical moments and everyday life under communism in Hungary.
A missing Russian man may have been swept up in Chechnya's "gay purge."
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it ushered in a new era of liberal democracy in Europe, but brought some drawbacks as well, including inequality, argues the British historian Timothy Garton Ash in an interview with RFE/RL's Belarusian Service.
Some Iranians are hailing the support by Snapp, an Uber-like company, for a driver's apparent refusal to transport a woman over her head scarf, while others are calling for a boycott.
Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf Of Oman have escalated tensions in the region -- has it raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States?
There was euphoria in Moscow as journalist Ivan Golunov walked free after a historic climbdown by the Russian law enforcement authorities, who dropped a drug charge widely seen as fabricated. But it was back to business as usual the next day, with police detaining hundreds of peaceful demonstrators
A Kazakh bicyclist innocently pedals his way into an election protest, and then detention.
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