Kaisa Alliksaar is a social-media producer for the Central Newsroom of RFE/RL in Prague.
European Union regulators are launching a probe into TikTok after it said foreign actors from Russia used the social media platform to interfere in the Romanian presidential elections.
Syria's most notorious extremist group has lost power over the last decade but has still managed to hit international targets. Some worry IS could make a comeback in the power vacuum following the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
The processing of rich oil fields in Kazakhstan has produced a windfall that was hoped to benefit millions of lives in the poverty-stricken country. Instead, a handful have become wildly rich and powerful while villagers near extraction plants are getting sick, blaming toxic pollution.
U.S. experts say Iran is running a preelection disinformation campaign, using websites partially written by ChatGPT to sow discord in society. So what do these websites look like?
For the second time, Iran has directly attacked Israel, launching hundreds of missiles on October 1. Analysts say the timing and logic of the attacks are down to pressure on Iran to respond following Israel's decisive blows against Lebanon-based Hezbollah leaders and Hamas.
More weapons to Ukraine, or getting a peace deal? Where do U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris stand on Russia's war on Ukraine.
Ukraine is meeting with allies today at the Ramstein air base in Germany to discuss further military aid. The meeting is with Western allies, NATO and EU members, and others. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is attending personally, planning to ask for U.S. cruise missiles (JASSMs).
Russian President Vladimir Putin was technically supposed to get arrested during a state visit to Mongolia on September 3. But he didn’t. Why?
Thousands of YouTube users in Russia reported on August 8 that the platform is no longer accessible for them – and it’s not the first time Russia is restricting YouTube. Why is this happening, and what alternatives would Russians have in the future?
Russia, the United States, and other countries have undertaken the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with 15 people -- including RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan -- being released.
In recent months, there’s been a wave of Russian sabotage incidents in Europe. What's going on, and what could Brussels do about it?
What makes Kadyrov's rule so unique in Russia? And how does the Chechen leader continue to act with such impunity?
Inside Georgia, there are two borders that are not even supposed to exist, appearing seemingly out of nowhere. Locals who live close to the breakaway South Ossetia or Abkhazia regions face arrest over crossing a sometimes invisible border, even though they are legally still in the same country.
From what the Russian authorities call him (or don't call him) to controversial comments he's made in the past, here are five facts you might not know about the jailed Kremlin critic.
Seventy-five years have passed since the German city of Koenigsberg and its surrounding area became Kaliningrad, now an odd piece of Russia disconnected from the rest of the country. So how did a German region become a Russian exclave? And what role does it play for Russia today?
Ever glanced at a map of the world and stopped to wonder why some countries have seemingly nonsensical shapes? You can find the answers -- or some of them, anyway -- in our ongoing Map Maps series.
When it comes to flying over conflict zones, it turns out everyone's in charge and no one's in charge.
In the second episode of our Mad Maps series, we look at how India ended up with a strange-looking, inconvenient "chicken neck," thanks to the British Empire.
Some countries’ borders don’t seem to make any sense at all. In the first episode of a three-part series we're calling Mad Maps, we take a look at crazy national boundaries in Central Asia, which have the power to spark violence. Why are they so complicated?
The antics of Turkmenistan’s authoritarian leader, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, have recently been the butt of jokes by Western comedians. But the daily realities in the country are grim – and unlikely to change.
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