For years, a network of informal couriers has funneled millions of dollars out of Kyrgyzstan in cold, hard cash. The underground money transfer system fuels corruption, destroys transparency -- and has claimed people’s lives. Here’s how it works.
A powerful Uyghur family exploited a cash courier system widely used by Kyrgyz merchants to move millions of U.S. dollars out of Kyrgyzstan into Turkey — and beyond.
Even after the EU and the United States adopted sanctions barring investment in Crimea, scores of EU companies have continued to do business on the peninsula, often through murky ownership structures, a new investigation by Current Time has found.
A Turkmen doctor who came out as gay in an interview with RFE/RL was again incommunicado for weeks before reappearing, his friends say, sparking fears he may have been put under pressure by the government or his family.
A joint investigation by Swedish TV4 and RFE/RL reveals a loophole that unlocks Sweden's job market for migrants who don't have work permits.
A powerful committee in the Russian State Duma has urged the legislature to adopt a bill that would allow prisoners to apply to be transferred to prisons closer to their relatives. Currently many convicts go years without visits because their families can't afford to travel thousands of kilometers to the remote prisons where they are held.
Against a backdrop of at least informal efforts to discourage female drivers, women in the Turkmen capital say officials are refusing to renew their driving licenses.
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The collapse of the Russia-backed cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, and the arrest of one of its principal founders, has long intrigued observers looking for clues of how Russian spy agencies used bitcoin to fund operations globally. A recent BBC report provides some more glimpses.
Water levels are falling on the Ural, the third-longest river in Europe. Despite a very snowy winter, the water level of the river did not rise at all this year. Pollution is also a problem, and a Russian-Kazakh commission has so far achieved little.
Spy Goar Vartanyan, who according to Soviet sources helped thwart a Nazi plot to kill Allied leaders in 1943, has died in Moscow at 93.
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