U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns has said that the new START treaty signed by the United States and Russia is the product of a "more mature relationship" between the two countries.
Ukraine has announced that it will eliminate its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the material that can be used to make nuclear weapons. Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych made the announcement following his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the nuclear security summit in Washington.
As Washington presses Kabul to take greater responsibility for security and institutions, the Afghan ambassador to the United States says that’s only possible if the country creates leaders and experts first
(INTRO) Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have signed a deal to set up the world's first nuclear fuel bank. The bank will sell low-enriched uranium to countries that comply with international non-proliferation treaties and want fuel for civilian purposes. RFE/RL's Central Newsroom reports.
When Doctor Gregory Anderson and Doctor K. David Harrison set off to a few remote Russian villages, they took only the bare essentials: toothbrushes, socks, and microphones, video cameras, and audio recorders.
Of the more than 6,700 languages spoken in the world, half are in danger of disappearing before the century ends. But what is lost when a language dies and why does the process occur?
Cutting deep into the inner reaches of the atom to see what matter is really made of. It was just one of the stories that made 2009 a dynamic year in science and technology.
Following a wave of domestic and international protest, the Azerbaijani parliament on June 30 passed a watered-down version of legislation that restricts the activity of NGOs. Activists had worried the original legislation would effectively shut down the roughly 2,500 NGOs operating in Azerbaijan. But even as the removal of the bill's most stringent policies is being hailed as a success, concerns still linger about efforts by the Azerbaijani government to clamp down on civil society.
Millions of people flock from Central Asia to Russia in search of work. But a far less documented trend is illicit labor migration from Central Asia to the United States. Kyrgyz-born scholar Saltanat Liebert is one of the first to study the phenomenon in depth.
Despite the fact that Russia boasts a lively and growing online community, the Kremlin has been careful not to let the democratizing potential of the participatory formats such as blogs and forums go unchecked.
