Large crowds of people lined the streets of the Czech capital as the coffin of the country's late leader Vaclav Havel was transported to Prague Castle. Havel will lie in state at the castle until his funeral on December 23.
After riots in the western Kazakh town of Zhanaozen claimed at least 13 lives, the city has experienced an uneasy calm after a heavy deployment of police. RFE/RL's Kazakh Service correspondent Kazis Toguzbaev traveled to Zhanaozen and the nearby Aktau on December 19.
North Korean state television announced on December 19 that 69-year-old leader Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack during a train trip on December 17.
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright-turned-president and the leading figure in the peaceful revolution that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has died.
RFE/RL looks back at the year 2011, from the Arab Spring to memorial services for Kim Jong Il and Vaclav Havel.
Russian protesters who gathered on December 10 in Moscow and other cities created some amusing signs to demand their votes be heard, recounted, or given back. Some of them also featured clever plays on words to avoid using profanity for which they might be arrested and prosecuted for insulting officials.
Greek violence, Kabul bombing, Russian unrest, and Durban climate change talks
From historic Egyptian votes to pitchfork-wielding protesters in Ukraine and embassy raids in Iran.
Dozens of Iranian protesters entered the British Embassy compound in Tehran, smashing windows and burning the British flag during a rally against new sanctions London has imposed over Iran's nuclear program.
Superimposed presidents, continued unrest in Egypt, and a women-only taxi service in Iraq.
Photographer Abbas Atilay of RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service visited the markets of Tabriz and Orumieh (Urmia) in northwestern Iran’s mainly ethnic Azeri provinces. These bazaars are not only the commercial hearts of the cities; they are also the political centers that have spawned recent protest movements.
Croatian grief, Occupying Everything, and Iranian nukes.
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