U.S. President Donald Trump may seek to double down on his attempt to improve relations with Russia should he win a second term, analysts say, while Joe Biden has promised to take a tough stance. Despite the differing approaches, relations could remain badly strained or worse regardless of who wins.
An elementary-school art teacher in Odesa berated a pupil for speaking Ukrainian, not Russian, driving her to tears in front of her classmates. When the teacher was dismissed, it fit into what one analyst called a gradual role reversal between Ukraine's two most commonly spoken tongues.
The poisoning of President Vladimir Putin's biggest domestic critic sent shock waves through Russia's opposition. But in the city where he was poisoned, the politicians Aleksei Navalny helped elevate say it has motivated them to continue exposing corruption and waging their political battle.
More than 1,400 Ukrainian communities will vote in local elections that follow key reforms aimed a dramatic restructuring of relations between local communities and the central government in Kyiv. Communities "will have more resources and decision-making power," one analyst said.
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 later, he revisited the same locations to see what remains.
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.
At least two women have publicly claimed they underwent sterilization after being threatened by doctors at a state-run residential facility in Yekaterinburg.
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