Changing times: North Macedonia has a new name and its first female candidate in a presidential election.
In the end, the two candidates squared off on the same stage, not from opposite ends of a stadium. But it looked and sounded less like a debate than a name-calling match that lacked substantive discussion -- and may not have done much to sway voters.
When a redacted version of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation report was issued in Washington, Moscow was ready with a mix of studied disinterest and well-practiced disdain.
The post-2001 generation make up around half of Afghanistan’s 33 million population, but their voices have been largely absent as the prospects for peace with the Taliban rise.
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"I'm coming for you!" Russian hockey player warns compatriot after NHL fight injures his younger brother.
Two of the biggest names of the Soviet Union were back in the news this week, for very different reasons that happened to involve the number 70. That's the age iconic singer Alla Pugacheva reached on her birthday -- and the percentage of Russians who think Josef Stalin played a positive role.
Sources tell RFE/RL the nephew of the International Boxing Association's former president, Gafur Rakhimov, was the kingmaker behind a newly crowned thief-in-law syndicate.
Instagram has removed webpages featuring several Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commanders, including elite Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, which has led to a call for Iran to block Instagram, one of the last major social-media platforms still available in Iran.
President Petro Poroshenko is attempting to reinvent himself and his campaign after a distant second-place finish in the first round of Ukraine's presidential election.
The Russian version of the comic-book remake scraps reference to the Soviet dictator, replacing him with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Facebook tells RFE/RL that it has officially banned the far-right Azov movement from its platform. But the company's lax enforcement means pages belonging to the group keep popping up and its leaders are still there as well.
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