Take a look at the 2014 media and civil society crackdown in Azerbaijan -- a country Reporters Without Borders calls "Europe's biggest prison for media personnel."
Havel’s Place is a memorial dedicated to Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright-turned-dissident who led the 1989 overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia and later went on to become the country's president. Each Havel's Place comprises two chairs linked by a round table with a tree growing through its center to symbolize a willingness to sit down and talk. Here are the memorials around the world.
In Ukraine, every picture tells a story. RFE/RL traveled to six Ukrainian cities in search of old family photographs -- and the people who treasure them as an affirmation of who they, and their country, are today.
Diana Markosian traveled to the Chechen capital, Grozny, to document a city transformed. These images show streets and buildings pulverized during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, and how they look today - after the city's massive refurbishment.
A U.S.-based rights watchdog says Internet freedom around the world has deteriorated for the fourth consecutive year, with the steepest declines in Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey. In its "Freedom On The Net 2014" report, released on December 4, Freedom House says that Iran, Syria, and China are the world's worst abusers of overall Internet freedom.
Worldwide, the number of new HIV infections continues to drop. Some parts of the former Soviet Union are notable exceptions. There the HIV epidemic continues to grow, most significantly in Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
More than two decades after the fall of Communism, Europe remains a continent divided in many respects. Traffic statistics offer one example. Eastern Europeans still own fewer cars than their Western cousins, but road fatality rates in the east remain far higher, on average, than in the West.
From November 21, 2013, until February 22, 2014, when former President Viktor Yanukovych fled his post, downtown Kyiv was the scene of constant protest and occasionally violent conflict. These were the key spots.
They were Moscow's client states in Europe, providing a buffer against the democratic West and a base for Soviet troops on the continent in the wake of World War II. But through four decades of Communist rule, dissident movements persisted -- despite quashed bids for greater freedom in 1956 and 1968 -- and the luster of Russian-backed socialism faded. Beginning with Poland in 1988, and with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaling Moscow would not interfere, the dominoes that made up Communist Central Europe fell one by one.
Some of the countries where food insecurity is worst, according to the UN FAO, and who trades most in the dominant food commodities?
A balanced budget for Russia depends on an average price of crude oil between $110 and $115 per barrel. But with prices recently falling below $90 and signs that the price may stay low for the foreseeable future, the country may experience shortfalls. Here is where the price of oil was over the past 35 years as major events were taking place in Russia. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Pegged to U.S. import price)
Filed with U.S. immigration officials by asylum seekers not in deportation proceedings at the time of submission
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