Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
A Tajik Imam once jailed as an “extremist” is now urging people to “follow the leaders of the country” and avoid using the Internet.
Sources tell RFE/RL the nephew of the International Boxing Association's former president, Gafur Rakhimov, was the kingmaker behind a newly crowned thief-in-law syndicate.
It was meant to be one of Bulgaria's tallest buildings, but the Sofia construction project could become an unfinished monument to a real-estate scandal involving the ruling GERB party.
For women in Turkmenistan, a state news agency's joke about women drivers is no laughing matter.
A female Afghan lawmaker is coming under criticism for slapping a police officer in Kabul, but she says he deserved it.
Igor Girkin was once seen as a hero in Russia for his role in the occupation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. Now he's selling his gold medal celebrating Crimea's "reunification with Russia."
Is it safer to repatriate Islamic State fighters and their families for trial and rehabilitation? Or should they stay in jails and refugee camps run by authorities in Syria and Iraq? That's the question now confronting the United States, the European Union, Russia, and Central Asia.
An expert on Pakistan and India from the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs says the crisis between India and Pakistan has reached its peak and that both sides want to deescalate the situation.
In an operation copying the tactics of Russian social-media trolls, a network of fake Facebook accounts worked with real account holders in Moldova to promote the ruling Democratic Party's parliamentary election campaign and discredit pro-Russia politicians.
An Uzbek IT specialist is demanding justice be served against a judge who allegedly put him in the hospital by kicking him in the groin.
Scientists are beginning ask whether the European measles epidemic was bolstered by Russian trolls who infiltrated anti-vaccination groups to spread the Kremlin's agenda.
Doubts have been raised in Ukraine about a prosecutor's proposal for residents of the separatist-controlled east to face a loyalty lie detector test.
An Afghanistan analyst says the Taliban has the ability to keep its side of a bargain reached with U.S. negotiators to start an Afghan-led peace process. But do all sides have the will to move forward?
Kosovo has had three numbers to directly call police in an emergency in the past 20 years. Most Kosovars don't know they should be dialing 192.
After dismal harvests in 2018, Uzbekistan is consolidating small farms into larger enterprises. But some small farmers worry they are taking the blame for problems beyond their control in an inefficient, tightly controlled state-run sector.
Social media has brought many people to account. It has outed racists, exposed corruption and crimes, and given a voice to those who previously had no avenue to call for justice. But it has also spawned a hyper-sensitive outrage culture that its critics say is destroying productive discourse.
A Bulgarian minister has threatened to try to block Macedonia's bids to join the EU and NATO over Skopje's insistence that Macedonian is its own language.
Police in one district of corruption-plagued Uzbekistan have been forced to swear on the Koran that they will be good cops.
Ersatz bread from Ukraine's 1932-33 famine was preserved for decades as criminal "evidence" against a church choir conductor who saved the scraps to tell future generations of the "terrible hunger."
A mother in Kazakhstan tells how she lost her teenage daughter to Islamic State militants in Syria.
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