RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan has obtained disturbing video footage of the apparent stoning to death for adultery of a young woman in the western province of Ghor.
Here are some of the scenarios that Russian and other media are exploring in the wake of Russia's worst-ever air disaster.
Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, says she wants to use the spotlight cast on her by the award to try to spark a "revolution in the minds of people."
Just five months ago, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan and his ruling party looked to be in decline. But after new elections, Turks seem to have chosen his style of strong leadership.
Azerbaijan is holding parliamentary elections that will be boycotted by key international monitors and all of the country’s established opposition parties. The November 1 poll follows a two-year government crackdown on civil society in the oil-rich Caspian Sea state.
A Tajik family's life has been turned upside down after their infant son died in police custody while Russian authorities were investigating his mother's residency status.
Since 1991, October 30 has been an official state day of remembrance for victims of political repression in Russia. However, in recent years the event has gotten very little official attention as efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of Soviet leader Josef Stalin have gained momentum.
The OSCE has fired a member of its observer mission in Ukraine after he was filmed apparently drunk and spreading pro-Russian views.
A tiny village in southern Russia has laid to rest one of its sons, the first confirmed Russian casualty since Moscow launched a military offensive in Syria on September 30. Relatives, friends, and neighbors are still asking how Vadim Kostenko died.
Following a raid in which scores of "extremist" books were seized, Russian investigators have announced that the head of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow has been arrested on suspicion of "inciting ethnic hatred."
Lanfranco Cirillo may be Russia's most enigmatic Italian, a mystery man nicknamed "Putin's Architect" for his work on a palatial mansion built in utmost secrecy, purportedly for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Born into an Old Believer family that fled Stalinist religious persecution in the 1930s, Agafia Lykova has lived her whole life deep in the Siberian wilderness, unmolested by modernity and the state.
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