Pete Baumgartner is the editor for Central Asia and China for RFE/RL's Central Newsroom in Prague.
Paddy Ashdown, the former high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, says a proposed remaking of the border between Kosovo and Serbia along ethnic lines is a bad idea that could result in borders being redrawn all over the Balkans and used to justify land seizures in Ukraine.
With Tajiks and the international community eager to learn more about possible motives in the Islamic State-claimed attack that killed four foreigners, officials in Tajikistan appear to be clamping down on… journalists.
Four foreign cyclists were killed and three injured in an attack in Tajikistan that was claimed by Islamic State extremists. Here's a look at those killed and the survivors.
France, Switzerland, and England are among the World Cup teams that feature players from diverse backgrounds. Russia's squad, meanwhile, lacks the multiethnic composition that would mirror its population.
A dispute over a claim that Liberia has renounced its recognition of Kosovo underscores Serbia's stubborn refusal to recognize Kosovo's statehood.
Its inflation rate is second only to Venezuela's, and that's just one of the woes prompting Turkmenistan's citizens to seek greener pastures. But President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is busy with other things.
Turkmen students abroad are going hungry and getting tossed from their homes and universities as their banks in Turkmenistan withhold cash.
The head of Tatarstan's symphony orchestra has come under fire for comparing Tatar music to a hodgepodge salad.
Several former Soviet gymnasts say they were sexually abused by their former coach, who gymnastics legend Olga Korbut has accused of raping her.
The political theorist and philosopher's legacy remains controversial as the 200th anniversary of his birth is marked in his German hometown on May 5.
A high-ranking NATO general says he is surprised by the lack of "visible Russian Interference" aimed at manipulating developments in Armenia's political crisis.
Seemingly on the cusp of an escalation in protests against his effort to stay in power, Armenia's ex-president stepped down as prime minister.
Officials in one of Central Asia's most authoritarian states are preventing Turkmen nationals from leaving for greener economic pastures.
Bikinis, short pants, and other swimsuits are the latest items to run afoul of the Turkmen government's rules for what is appropriate for its people.
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko, a national heroine as a prisoner of war in Russia, told RFE/RL in an interview that charges of organizing an armed attack on parliament are "absurd."
Rights activists in Armenia are accusing state television of mocking female inmates during a TV program.
On the heels of President Vladimir Putin's claims of new Russian weapons to usher in a "new reality," RFE/RL talked to a strategic forces and deterrence expert about the possible advantages of the array of nuclear-powered, hypersonic, and underwater weapons Putin described.
The first winner of the Miss Wheelchair World beauty pageant is crying foul after a trendy nightclub in Minsk denied her entry, claiming safety issues.
A Russian court says two Nazi swastikas must go from an inmate's chest, and he's apparently got to do it himself.
Femen's Anzhelina Diash has grabbed headlines with topless protests targeting European presidents. In addition to the jail time, her actions have also lost her a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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