Pete Baumgartner is the editor for Central Asia and China for RFE/RL's Central Newsroom in Prague.
Thousands of refugees arriving by train to their dream destination -- Germany –- are receiving an outpouring of support from German officials and citizens.
Soccer fans burst into the streets of the Kazakh capital to celebrate after FC Astana became the first Central Asian team to advance to the group stage of Europe’s Champions League, the most exclusive club tournament in the world.
Last week, California wines and French meat were attacked. Today, it's Wikipedia and washing detergents -- all part of the Kremlin's dizzying parade of bans and blacklists on foreign products since the West imposed sanctions on Russia last year.
A Russian Orthodox priest made headlines in 2011 when he blessed the computers of a local equivalent of YouTube. The Russian media also went to town last year when priests consecrated the runway at a regional airport after the mayor survived a scary landing.
Thousands of anti-Islam protesters have marched in Germany, claiming last week's terrorist attacks in Paris vindicated their stance, after Chancellor Angela Merkel said that "Islam belongs to Germany."
To realize the full significance of Kyrgyzstan's 2010 April Revolution, it's important to remember what the country was like one year and one day ago, on the eve of the uprising.
