The Telegram app has taken off in Russia as both a vibrant new space for blogging and a secure messenger service used by businesses, activists, and even officials, but media reports suggest the authorities may be moving to block it.
Having gone into political hibernation following the contentious 2009 election, Iran's younger generation has an opportunity to play the role of kingmaker on May 19.
An apparent Twitter hoax has duped major Russian and European media into falsely reporting the death of Belarusian author and Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.
A senior disarmament official with the Russian Foreign Ministry earlier this month killed two people before shooting himself. His social-media footprint and other communications had already raised concerns in some quarters.
A video published on a website critical of the Turkmen government claims to show a transgender person enduring humiliating questions and verbal abuse during a police interrogation.
President Petro Poroshenko's blanket ban in Ukraine on several Russian Internet services, including leading Russian-language social networks and a popular search engine, has struck a chord -- or a nerve, depending on who you ask.
If you've got it, don't flaunt it: Tajikistan doesn't take kindly to well-to-do students driving their own cars to school.
As Iranian President Hassan Rohani bids for a second term, we look at how he fared in reaching the goals he set for his administration upon taking office four years ago.
They are sleek contrasts in style and tone. But the campaign videos of the presidential race's two presumed front-runners are even further apart in their message to Iran's 55 million eligible voters.
Vladimir Bizik, an analyst for the European Values think tank in Prague, spoke with RFE/RL about the ongoing WannaCry ransomware attack on computer operating systems around the world.
Following the conviction of a blogger for "insulting religious feelings" when he played Pokemon Go in a church, veteran journalist Vladimir Pozner has asked Vladimir Putin to clarify the apparent clampdown on religious freedom.
China took its sprawling plan for an intercontinental trade network to the world stage this week with a high-profile summit attended by more than two dozen world leaders. But can Beijing pull off this ambitious bid to build exponentially on the former Silk Road trade route?
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