The popularity of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul is now threatening the high-altitude lake's future. An international financial institution and the Kyrgyz government are trying to combat the threat.
Chechnya is facing a mounting epidemic of tuberculosis. Official indifference, low awareness, and a medical infrastructure battered by two wars have allowed TB to flourish in the North Caucasus republic.
This weekend's vote will say a lot about Iraq's stability just months before a planned U.S. troop drawdown.
After accusing Vladimir Putin of widespread corruption just as he became Russia's president, Marina Salye, a feisty and outspoken 75-year-old former legislator from St. Petersburg, retired to her country home and disappeared from public view.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi voters cast their ballots early in a number of provinces on the day for special voting on March 4, which included procedures for employees of the Iraqi security forces, hospital staff and patients, and prison inmates.
The ghosts of the Bosnian war have been awakened in the past week by the genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic and the arrest in Britain of Bosniak wartime leader Ejup Ganic on an extradition request from Serbia. Both cases have rekindled bitter arguments between Serbs and Bosniaks over events in Sarajevo at the start of the Bosnian war.
As campaigning winds up for Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, the mood varies widely in different parts of the country. RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq correspondents in several cities describe how the upcoming election is viewed in their hometowns.
An unlikely voice has joined the chorus of criticism directed against the Afghan government's commitment to civil liberties -- the Taliban.
Ryszard Kapuscinski is something of a national hero in Poland, and a writer of high regard in the rest of the world. But now a former colleague, journalist Artur Domoslawski, has published a biography of him which casts a negative light on much of his writing.
In Russia, the normal rules of the road don't apply when it comes to the elite. The country's rich and powerful drive on sidewalks, use emergency lanes to speed past traffic jams, and generally disregard the safety of other motorists and pedestrians. But following a series of high-profile accidents, pressure is mounting to bring them into line.
A new poll says the attitude of Russians toward the United States has improved dramatically since the election of U.S. President Barack Obama. RFE/RL correspondent Kevin O'Flynn went out on the streets of Moscow to talk to Russians about whether their view of America has changed, and why.
In 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to proclaim independence, paving the way for the Soviet Union's collapse. Twenty years later, however, the Baltic state is still grappling with its communist legacy. Its first postcommunist head of state says there is little consensus in Central and Eastern European countries on dealing with Soviet-era crimes.
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