The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has prompted eulogies from around the world, but few of the messages have been as eccentric as the second-coming predicted by Iran's president.
Azerbaijani blogger Emin Milli is a rising star in his country’s rapidly growing opposition movement. He is widely known as the "donkey blogger" for his role in a now-famous video lampooning President Ilham Aliyev’s government.
The U.S. ambassador for management and reform has admonished diplomats for drinking during complex budget negotiations. Others, however, think it was the ambassador himself who was out of line.
Almost a decade after their emergence, Al-Qaeda's password-protected online forums continue to remain popular. Government officials in the United States and elsewhere have spoken out against the message boards, which are used by jihadis to converse and distribute information, saying they serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists and have been used to incite violence against the West.
Neither international inspectors nor Tehran is willing to give an inch in the showdown over access to Iran's Parchin military complex. Why?
Soviet pianist and composer Sergei Prokofiev died 60 years ago, on March 5, 1953. It happened to be the same day Soviet media reported the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, the man whose life and deeds hung like a shadow over most of Prokofiev’s career.
Eighteen-year-old Elmira Abdrazakova got more than she bargained for when she was crowned Miss Russia 2013 this week. Within days, the teenager, who is half-Russian and half-Tatar, received a series of hate messages that forced her off social-media sites.
Poverty and lack of jobs in Afghanistan's impoverished northeast prompt many residents to take desperate measures to eke out a living. For some, that means taking a job in the illicit narcotics trade.
With general elections just around the corner in Pakistan, politicians in independence-minded Balochistan Province are weighing the benefits and risks of participating.
Russian immigration officials stopped a performance based on the Pussy Riot trial at Moscow’s Sakharov Center on March 3 to examine the papers of the show’s Swiss director.
Russian inspectors have uncovered rampant sanitary violations at an army base on the tiny Pacific island of Kunashir.
Anne Applebaum is a columnist with "The Washington Post" and director of Global Transitions at the Legatum Institute. She is also author of the 2004 book "Gulag: A History" and last year's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956." RFE/RL's Robert Coalson spoke with Applebaum about the enduring legacy of the Gulag in Russia.
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