A senior disarmament official with the Russian Foreign Ministry earlier this month killed two people before shooting himself. His social-media footprint and other communications had already raised concerns in some quarters.
A video published on a website critical of the Turkmen government claims to show a transgender person enduring humiliating questions and verbal abuse during a police interrogation.
President Petro Poroshenko's blanket ban in Ukraine on several Russian Internet services, including leading Russian-language social networks and a popular search engine, has struck a chord -- or a nerve, depending on who you ask.
If you've got it, don't flaunt it: Tajikistan doesn't take kindly to well-to-do students driving their own cars to school.
As Iranian President Hassan Rohani bids for a second term, we look at how he fared in reaching the goals he set for his administration upon taking office four years ago.
They are sleek contrasts in style and tone. But the campaign videos of the presidential race's two presumed front-runners are even further apart in their message to Iran's 55 million eligible voters.
Vladimir Bizik, an analyst for the European Values think tank in Prague, spoke with RFE/RL about the ongoing WannaCry ransomware attack on computer operating systems around the world.
Following the conviction of a blogger for "insulting religious feelings" when he played Pokemon Go in a church, veteran journalist Vladimir Pozner has asked Vladimir Putin to clarify the apparent clampdown on religious freedom.
China took its sprawling plan for an intercontinental trade network to the world stage this week with a high-profile summit attended by more than two dozen world leaders. But can Beijing pull off this ambitious bid to build exponentially on the former Silk Road trade route?
Turkmenistan has spent billions in an effort to put itself on the sporting map, and will be showing off the results when it hosts a major international event in September. Critics, however, fear Ashgabat has built another white elephant, and say the money could have been better used elsewhere.
In the popular U.S. television series Fargo, recent episodes refer to authoritarianism and corruption in Russia and says its president uses lies as a "weapon." But on state television in Russia itself, where Fargo enjoys a cult following, you won't see any of that.
While elections in Iran look like slug-it-out campaigns, with many of the trappings of competition -- government critics, disagreement on high-profile issues, and televised public debates -- they are kept tightly in check by unelected officials under the country's clerically dominated system.
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