Russian athletes are anxiously awaiting a decision by the International Olympic Committee that will determine whether they will compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea or be banned because of an alleged state-run doping system.
A Taliban "special forces" unit has drawn attention amid escalating deadly attacks on the Afghan security forces.
A centenarian who lived through Stalin's repression recounts the hardships and some of the happier times of her life.
A paintball club in Bosnia-Hercegovina says it will sue a television network after reports claimed it was a paramilitary unit that was being illegally formed by the country’s presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic.
A court in Irkutsk ruled that he's a child pornographer, but the former director of a French cultural organization in Siberia says he fled Russia because he was targeted in a "discredit tactic" conspiracy.
Hotel guests across Uzbekistan should have copies on hand of the Koran, Bible, and other sacred books, say Uzbek officials more accustomed to reining in religious fervor.
Russian activists and experts fear the country is experiencing a silent HIV epidemic among gay men that is fueled in part by social stigma and wrongheaded government policies.
The coach of the Thai women's kabaddi team has claimed he was forced to wear a head scarf to attend a recent tournament in Iran, where men are banned from attending female sports events.
Bosnian-Croat General and convicted war criminal Slobodan Praljak took a fatal dose of poison in a courtroom in The Hague. But in a larger sense he had been poisoned decades before. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Tajikistan considers breaking with decades of discrimination against women by punishing men on both sides of the illegal sex trade -- prostitutes and clients.
Ukrainian officials and politicians have reacted with alarm to reports that the Council of Europe is considering lifting sanctions imposed against Russia over its military intervention in Crimea out of fears that Moscow might otherwise leave the body.
The Chechen leader may be saying the time has come to quit his job, but analysts don't think he's going anywhere.
Load more
