Ambassador William R. Brownfield, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, has recently returned from a trip to Kabul. He talked to RFE/RL's Golnaz Esfandiari in Washington about U.S. efforts to curb poppy cultivation in Afghanistan
The United States has apologized for the content of a leaked telephone call in which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland apparently used strong language to dismiss EU involvement in Ukraine and doubts opposition leader Vitali Klitschko's ability to occupy a senior government post.
Two years ago, it was electoral fraud. This weekend, the hipsters who will be out protesting on Moscow's now famous Bolotnaya Square are disgruntled they will have to pay more for their iPads.
Some people in Bosnia-Herzegovina are finding it hard to unite behind their country's medal hopefuls at the Sochi games.
While some Olympians say they'll use Sochi to condemn Russian legislation prohibiting homosexual "propaganda," others, including a number of gay athletes, have vowed to keep their political views to themselves.
Animal-welfare activists are sounding the alarm over what they describe as the massive culling of stray dogs in Sochi ahead of the Olympic Games.
Iran's government has launched a two-week operation to distribute free food to low-income families, but not everyone is happy about the image it presents.
U.S. runner Nick Symmonds made headlines last summer when he used a medal-winning performance at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow to publicly denounce Russia's law prohibiting "gay propaganda." RFE/RL spoke to him about the fine line between politics and sports.
Dozhd TV, the independent station and Internet channel that cut into the Kremlin’s monopoly on television programming, is battling to hang on to its urban middle-class audience and stay alive.
A handful of athletes have pledged to denounce a controversial Russian law targeting gays and lesbians during the Sochi Olympics. But confusion still reigns over what forms of protest will be permitted at the games.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul has announced that he is stepping down and returning home following the Winter Olympics in Sochi. RFE/RL spoke to two former U.S. ambassadors to Russia and two prominent foreign-affairs analysts about McFaul's tenure, which was often marked by acrimonious relations between Washington and Moscow.
The kidnapping and apparent torture of Euromaidan activists like Dmytro Bulatov -- who has been transported to Lithuania for medical care after saying that captors sliced off part of his ear and drove nails through his hands -- has raised fears of Russian or Russian-speaking "death squads" operating in Ukraine
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