Antoine Blua is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Earlier this month, at a tense town-hall-style meeting in a western region of Kazakhstan regarded as a hotbed for Islamic fundamentalism, physicians, religious leaders, and local government officials debated the fate of the next generation.
A home-building newbie is earning headlines for the Russian-designed 3D-printer technology that it used to erect a small house near Moscow in just a day.
Plans to reintroduce tigers to Central Asia, using the Amur tiger from Russia, have been a topic of discussion for about a decade. But the idea got a scientific boost earlier this month when a study laid out the options for restoring tigers to the region and identified a "promising site" in Kazakhstan that could support nearly 100 wild tigers within 50 years.
A commercial matchmaker has come under fire in Kazakhstan over efforts to recruit bachelorettes for wealthy Chinese customers willing to plonk down hard cash for a mate.
Kremlin foe Garry Kasparov says President Vladimir Putin is resorting to "external aggression" and increased confrontation with the West to bolster his image as Russia's leader and maintain a "dictatorship" in the country.
A massive Russian "spiritual and cultural center," crowned by a golden-domed Orthodox cathedral, is opening its gates in downtown Paris, thrusting Russian religious and political outreach to the fore in one of Europe's most prestigious and influential capitals.
Azerbaijan is holding a referendum on amending the constitution that is expected to strengthen the grip on power of President Ilham Aliyev and his family.
A Russian billionaire has teamed up with the world's most famous cosmologist on a $100 million project to send miniature spaceships to another star system. But who is Russia's mysterious star voyager?
In a new report, Freedom House warns that economic woes are threatening the stability of "entrenched dictatorships" in the former Soviet Union, the migration crisis is fueling populism in Eastern Europe, and reforms in the Balkans are in retreat.
Conservationists in Russia say a small herd of endangered Przewalski's horses recently reintroduced in the Urals are enduring well their first winter in their new habitat despite exceptionally harsh conditions.
A new study claims ancient astronomers used a sophisticated geometric method to plot the path of Jupiter on clay tablets long before the medieval Europeans generally credited with inventing the technique.
Warning that the Zika virus is "spreading explosively," the head of the World Health Organization has called for an emergency meeting on February 1 to determine the magnitude of the mosquito-borne virus blamed for the birth of thousands of babies with abnormally small heads in Brazil.
A new study says the exodus of hundreds of Russian mathematicians to the West following the Soviet Union's collapse has deprived Russia of many of its best and brightest, but hasn't wiped it out as a math powerhouse.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns in its annual world report that many governments across the globe are making a “big mistake” by ignoring human rights to counter security challenges.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has died at the age of 90 after ruling the oil-rich Middle Eastern state as king for 10 years.
Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, a man credited with helping end the Cold War, has died.
In a new report, Freedom House says Russia is playing a "pivotal role" in a continuing decline in democracy among the countries of the post-Soviet sphere.
Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister Eugen Carpov has denounced a "propaganda" campaign aimed at creating "tensions" in the breakaway region of Transdniester.
Russia's FSB security service says it has "neutralized" the activities of Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov. The announcement -- while it stops short of a full confirmation of Umarov's death -- comes a month after a website close to Russian Islamist militants, Kavkaz Center, said Umarov had "become a martyr."
Jens Stoltenberg of Norway has been named NATO's next NATO secretary-general. But who is he?
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