From urban terror to ballot boxes and holy nights.
Nigerian bombings, Turkish air strike, Russian protests, and a surfing Santa
As mourners express public grief in North Korea for "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, Czechs pay quieter homage to their "Velvet revolutionary," Vaclav Havel.
As Russians take to the streets in their thousands to protest what they allege were fraudulent election results, here are a selection of protest signs from December 24. (Photos by Yuri Timofeyev from RFE/RL's Russian Service, with Reuters.)
Across Russia, tens of thousands of people have gone out to protest what they allege were fraudulent election results in early December.
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
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