Russia is about to launch a reform that the authorities claim will clean up the country's ill-famed police. The Russian public is skeptical.
Far from her homeland, Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer is busy in Washington, D.C., where she is organizing a plan to rally minority Uyghurs in China. She hopes that the move will promote Uyghur independence from Chinese rule.
It has been a week of dramatic political events in Kosovo that saw the election of businessman Behgjet Pacolli as president and the confirmation of a new government headed by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.
If reform can come to Tunisia and Egypt, then why not in the country that lies between them, Libya? The answer could lie in the complex tribal dynamics that make civil war a more likely possibility for this North African state.
He's destroyed his country's democratic institutions and reduced quality of life for most of his compatriots. That's the verdict against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych by many of the country's political experts one year into his presidency.
Thousands of Iraqis are planning to take to the streets on February 25 for their own "day of rage" to express their discontent with the country's fledgling democracy, following weeks of small protests that have been met with violence by government officials.
On first glance, it looks like an archetypal no-brainer; a large Middle Eastern country with a repressive regime and a simmering, angry protest movement.
Ukrainian nationals fleeing the violence in Libya have described to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service a tense situation in the Mediterranean country, which has fully descended into the throes of civil war.
As a result of political deal-making, Kosovo now has a president with close personal and business ties to a country that strenuously opposes Kosovo's independence and a prime minister who has been linked to allegations of trafficking in human organs during the 1990s conflict with Serbia.
What do the revolution in Egypt, the struggle to combat drought in China, and campaign politics in Pakistan have in common?
Oil prices are rising rapidly amid the unrest in Libya, a major oil exporter. And there is little sign they may come down again soon.
John Howard, who was Australia's prime minister for almost 12 years before leaving office in 2007, visited RFE/RL this week to share his thoughts about the rising democratic tide in the Middle East and what the West can do to change authoritarian regimes.
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