Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressing several thousand people outside the ancient St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv announced on December 15 in Kyiv that a historic church council has agreed on the creation of an independent Orthodox church for Ukraine.
A Russian soldier has been arrested as a suspect in the beating death of a woman in northwestern Armenia. The incident has again has again caused outrage in the city of Gyumri after past killings by soldiers from a Russian military base there.
A Tajik teacher connects with students through rap music.
Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region suffered from mass emigration to Israel in the 1990s, but efforts are underway to restore its identity.
Shehla lives in a village near Peshawar in northern Pakistan where she looks after her ailing father alone. Struggling to pay the rent, she dresses as a man so she can labor on local building sites and avoid the stares and gossip of passersby in this traditional Pashtun community.
The Silk Road brought numerous cultures and religions together for centuries. RFE/RL visited with archaeologists who are searching for clues to what really happened on these ancient trading routes in Central Asia.
After two Russian warplanes landed in Venezuela, the United States accused the two countries of "squelching liberty." The Kremlin called the comments "completely inappropriate."
Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has called for the modernization of the country's wine industry and brought 60,000 vine cuttings from France. But can the Muslim state transform an ancient tradition into a modern industry which can compete on international markets?
An eerie wind is the only sound to be heard in a once-secret northern Kazakh town which used to be the hub of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
A traffic stop in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, was anything but routine when police heard screams coming from a woman inside the car. They decided to let it go without taking action.
The number of female soldiers in Ukraine's military has risen sharply since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. About one-third are officers like Olena Belska, who commands a mortar unit in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
Russians have been saying farewell to Lyudmila Alekseyeva, a human rights activist who challenged Soviet and Russian leaders for decades.
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