Pete Baumgartner is the editor for Central Asia and China for RFE/RL's Central Newsroom in Prague.
An archived document from Bulgaria's spy agency contradicts an Eastern Bloc buzz seemingly aimed at discrediting assassinated journalist Georgi Markov.
The skull of the legendary Caucasian warrior Hadji Murad -- who was beheaded by Russian troops in the 19th century -- is one step closer to being returned to his relatives in Daghestan, Russian officials say.
Belarusian rights activists had sought a criminal probe over Interior Minister Ihar Shunevich's prison-slang pejorative for homosexuals.
Tajik men say they can't get a passport in a beard, seemingly a result of Tajik government efforts attributed to the fights for secularism and against extremism.
In danger of disappearing 30 years ago, the fabled Kabardian horses native to Russia's North Caucasus region have made a comeback that extends to Western Europe.
The astonishing story of six people rescued from the rubble 35 days after a devastating 1988 earthquake grabbed headlines around the world -- before it was unmasked as "fake news."
Four Belarusian women -- moved to action by a student's coerced apology to a bronze memorial -- have cuddled and kissed a statue dedicated to the police.
Leaders of the separatist regions in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions are trying everything to get voters to controversial polls, including offering sales on eggs and chicken, raising salaries, and issuing kitschy videos aimed at young voters.
Armenia says it stands by its ambassador in Berlin despite a German television report on an Armenian mafia group in Germany that allegedly has ties to Yerevan's envoy.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev hopes to use French cuttings to create world-class wine -- which actually has a long history in Central Asia's Ferghana Valley.
Dozens of Uzbek villagers have been left homeless after their homes were bulldozed to make way for Shavkat Mirziyoev's presidential palace and a bigger road leading to it.
The U.K.'s focus on a multimillion-dollar luxury shopping splurge by the wife of a jailed Azerbaijani banker raises the specter that President Ilham Aliyev and his family might be asked to explain their overseas wealth.
A Minsk priest has been suspended by the Belarusian Orthodox Church for posting photos of Russian Patriarch Kirill's extensive security detail during his visit to Minsk.
An ethnic Kazakh woman says she was forced to have an abortion while Chinese officials were threatening to put her in one of the "reeducation" camps that were recently condemned by the United Nations.
Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov takes on Irish UFC legend and Putin-pleaser Conor McGregor this weekend, with or without the backing of his fellow Russians.
Underground rapper Young Zapik's song Beautiful Girl In Hijab has gone viral in Uzbekistan, in opposition to the government's ban on women wearing Islamic head scarves in public.
Popular Russian singers Yegor Kreed and Allj scratched concerts in the Daghestani capital after online threats and opposition from the republic's most famous athlete.
The Georgian government has proposed growing cannabis for export, but leaving the cultivation and sale within the country as illegal acts.
The arrest of gynecologists in Kyrgyzstan on suspicion of conspiracy to sell newborn babies is the latest in a string of reports of infants and small children being sold.
Russia is wary as Armenia readjusts its foreign policy -- and its relations with Moscow.
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