Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
A vegan cafe in the historic center of Tbilisi was forced to cancel an English-language video screening over the weekend when a group described by witnesses as far-right extremists threw meat into patrons' vegan dinners and started a brawl.
The man identified by Ukraine's outgoing prime minister as his successor is a 38-year-old loyalist of President Petro Poroshenko who was thrust onto the national scene after the Euromaidan unrest that toppled a government.
Many details about the Armenia-backed separatist force in Azerbaijan's territory of Nagorno-Karabakh are murky. The extent of Yerevan's support for separatists who control the territory within Azerbaijan is also a contentious issue. But political, economic, and military ties suggest there is, at least, a relationship of "bilateral synergy."
Kosovo's prime minister has explained why his brother and other members of his family joined a mass exodus of Kosovars seeking asylum in the European Union since 2014.
A debate is emerging about whether the Kremlin is intentionally exacerbating Syria's humanitarian catastrophe or merely capitalizing on the tragedy.
Sergei Aleksashenko, a former Russian central banker, says authorities there are not coming clean with the public about the country’s dire economic situation.
Now that the final steps are being taken to lift economic sanctions against Iran as part of its nuclear agreement with world powers, what are the economic implications of the deal?
Iran's brief detention of U.S. Navy patrol boats and their crew for straying into Iranian waters is just the latest incident to test the countries' relations in the wake of July's landmark nuclear agreement, and comes just days before the expected lifting of international sanctions against Tehran.
Although she's been in jail for a year, investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova continues to chronicle corruption and rights abuses in Azerbaijan -- from jail or the courtroom -- and vows not to relent.
As young Europeans are recruited by the militant group Islamic State (IS), specialists who deradicalize neo-Nazis are using their experience to help European extremists who are returning home from battle as IS foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.
The idea of erecting barriers to keep undesirables at bay did not crumble with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Police attempted to end a days-long street protest in the Armenia by forcibly dispersing participants and journalists. But the heavy-handed approach, which included the direct involvement of a top national police commander, has sparked a furious response at home and abroad.
Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds.
European Court says both Baku, Yerevan deny rights to civilians displaced by Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Nine Afghan employees of a government development program, including a woman, have been killed by militants who attacked their guesthouse in a remote village of northern Afghanistan's Balkh Province.
A Washington-based think tank on international affairs has released a scathing report on Russia's "direct military intervention" in eastern Ukraine, concluding that President Vladimir Putin has led his country into war and has lied about it.
Russia is trying to attract Chinese tourists to Tatarstan's capital, Kazan, with a "red tour" of communism's historic sites -- bragging not only that Lenin once slept there, but was also expelled from university there as a young revolutionary.
Poland's surprise choice for president signals appetite for change and is almost certain to dent egos in Brussels, but Andrzej Duda has so far pressed for even deeper defense commitments from the West.
Numerous Kremlin opponents and critics have fallen ill from poisoning over the years, sometimes fatally, in circumstances that have raised suspicions of KGB-style assassinations. RFE/RL takes a look at various poisons thought to have been involved in prominent cases.
The fall of Ramadi to Islamic State (IS) militants has changed the way Iraq is trying to confront the Sunni-led extremists -- with Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia fighters being brought in to defend Sunni tribal lands.
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