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October 30, 2018
Taliban Floggings Hint At Crackdown On Smartphones

The Taliban's flogging of two women in northern Afghanistan may have helped expose the militant group's crackdown on the use of mobile phones.

October 30, 2018
In Tehran, New Hijab Protester Led Off By Police

A woman takes to a busy roundabout in the Iranian capital to protest the country's dress code, in the first apparent case of an anti-hijab demonstration in some time.
October 29, 2018
Fighting For The Little Guy? Russian Kids Appeal To Their New Deputy, MMA Fighter Jeff Monson

The children of a district outside Moscow are represented by U.S.-born mixed-martial-arts fighter Jeff Monson, who is widely known for his risible Russian. So they sent their request to him by video in English.
October 29, 2018
Bosnians Shrug Off Cost Of Changing Citizenship, Take EU Plunge

With each passing day, one of Europe's smallest populations loses another citizen as Bosnians turn in passports.
October 29, 2018
'They Served The Cheka': Provincial Russian Billboards Honor Stalin's Executioners

The local FSB museum in the city of Vladimir has organized a billboard campaign celebrating the wartime records of Josef Stalin's notorious secret police -- just in time for Russia's Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions.
October 28, 2018
Uzbeks Angry After Homes Demolished To Build Mirziyoev's Presidential Palace, Highway

Dozens of Uzbek villagers have been left homeless after their homes were bulldozed to make way for Shavkat Mirziyoev's presidential palace and a bigger road leading to it.
October 27, 2018
Interview: It May Not Seem Like It, But The World Is Getting Better

Canadian-American global thinker Steven Pinker uses statistics in his latest book to show how health, prosperity, peace, and happiness have vastly improved for most people in the world and living conditions continue to rise, despite media headlines that make it seem as though life is getting worse.
October 27, 2018
Travels With Ivan: How The Soviet Secret Police Monitored U.S. Writer John Steinbeck

Newly declassified documents from the KGB archive in Ukraine shed light on how one leg of a 1947 journey to the Soviet Union by U.S. writer John Steinbeck and noted war photojournalist Robert Capa went down.
October 26, 2018
Modern Voting Systems Did More Harm Than Good In Afghanistan's Recent Elections

New measures to combat electoral fraud in Afghanistan have backfired, undermining the credibility of the recent parliamentary elections.
October 26, 2018
The Week's Best: RFE/RL Stories You May Have Missed

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
October 26, 2018
The Week In Russia: Martyrdom, Nuclear War, And Falling Ratings

Vladimir Putin said Russians will go to heaven as “martyrs” if the country gets into a nuclear war and warned of a new “arms race” if Washington abandons treaties. Putin got bad domestic news, with an ally issuing a grim economic forecast and a poll putting his approval rating near an all-time low.
October 26, 2018
RFE/RL Exclusive: FBI Silent On Lab Results In Kremlin Foe's Suspected Poisoning

RFE/RL Exclusive: The FBI has refused to release laboratory results into the suspected poisoning of anti-Kremlin activist Vladimir Kara-Murza last year, frustrating his congressional supporters and deepening the mystery behind his illness.

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Tuesday 30 October 2018

Taliban Floggings Hint At Crackdown On Smartphones

In Tehran, New Hijab Protester Led Off By Police

Fighting For The Little Guy? Russian Kids Appeal To Their New Deputy, MMA Fighter Jeff Monson

Bosnians Shrug Off Cost Of Changing Citizenship, Take EU Plunge

'They Served The Cheka': Provincial Russian Billboards Honor Stalin's Executioners

Uzbeks Angry After Homes Demolished To Build Mirziyoev's Presidential Palace, Highway

Interview: It May Not Seem Like It, But The World Is Getting Better

Travels With Ivan: How The Soviet Secret Police Monitored U.S. Writer John Steinbeck

Modern Voting Systems Did More Harm Than Good In Afghanistan's Recent Elections

The Week's Best: RFE/RL Stories You May Have Missed

The Week In Russia: Martyrdom, Nuclear War, And Falling Ratings

RFE/RL Exclusive: FBI Silent On Lab Results In Kremlin Foe's Suspected Poisoning

Editor's Picks

Ahead Of Protests, Russia Cracks Down On Navalny's Allies -- And TikTok

The Week's Best: 10 RFE/RL Stories You Need To Read (Or Watch)

Kazakh Police 'Kettle' Freezing Protesters For Nine Hours, Blasting 'Blizzard' Song

Tajiks Bury 'Juro Ako' -- Khujand's Beloved Last Jew

'Swamp Of Poverty': Uzbek Cotton Farmers Refusing To Work With 'Cluster' Monopoly

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Serbia Becomes First European Nation To Use China's Sinopharm Vaccine

Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan Finally Reach Deal On Lucrative Caspian Sea Energy Field

Back To The Beach In Bulgaria. Or Is It A Beach At All?

Meet The 'Poor Italian Architect' Who Designed 'Putin's Palace'

Popular Soviet War Ballad May Come To The Defense Of The Motherland As Russia's Olympic 'Anthem'

Long Lost Love: Moldovan Villagers From Important Soviet Photo Discovery Found

A New White House Spokeswoman, An Old Photo, And A Message About Russian Propaganda

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Inside 'Putin's Palace'

Pole Dancing And Fancy Toilet Brushes: Millions Watch Navalny Video On Alleged 'Putin Palace'

The Pole Or Bust! The Loneliest (And Coldest) Lenin

Before The Killings: Rare Photographs Of Russia's Last Royal Family

Russians Use TikTok In Social-Media Surge Of Support For Navalny

Young Amputee Faces Struggle To Pay For Prosthetics After Nagorno-Karabakh War

States Of Sadness: Ukraine, North Macedonia Feeling Frustrated

Migrants Bathe In Bosnian Thermal Spring To Escape Harsh Conditions

Kosovars Gather Near 'Biden Road' To Show Support For Incoming President

'Take It Off!': Ukrainians Drop Masks And Break Lockdown Rules