Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
The weather is always on people's minds, and even more so this spring with snow covering the ground in places where it is usually long gone this time of year. Will the warm weather ever arrive?
It sounds like science fiction, a cyberwar between two companies that brings the virtual world to a halt. But did it come close to happening this week?
Leaders of the BRICS group of nations have agreed in principle to set up their own development bank in addition to current international financial institutions. Does it matter?
The competition between Washington and Moscow over expanding the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant is getting hotter with a Czech technical assessment on March 25 that puts the American-Japanese Westinghouse bid ahead in key categories.
The cease-fire call on March 21 by the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, offers hope for peace in the group's decades-long war with Turkey. Here are five things to know about his announcement.
The eurozone’s demand that bank depositors in Cyprus help fund the island’s bailout is enough to make any bank customer nervous. What’s behind the strategy and what are the potential pitfalls for the rest of the eurozone?
What do nations do when they really get mad at each other? They hang up the hotline.
As international sanctions target oil exports, Iran hopes boosting its automotive exports will help ease the pressure.
Neither international inspectors nor Tehran is willing to give an inch in the showdown over access to Iran's Parchin military complex. Why?
At the height of the Cold War, pianist Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., better known as Van Cliburn, connected with the Soviet Union in a way no other American could.
China wants to turn Pakistan's port of Gwadar, located in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, into a regional trade hub and possible naval facility. Islamabad sees the potential to improve the local economy and mood of the province's inhabitants. Many Baluchis, however, see an effort to sink their separatist aims.
Tehran says it is installing faster, more efficient centrifuges for uranium enrichment, so clearly sanctions don't work. That is, unless Iran is bluffing.
In Azerbaijan, the life of former leader Heydar Aliyev is inspiring a new field of study. It’s called AliyevScience.
How would you feel if you were forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan as a child laborer? You can find out by playing an online game whose goal is to make you bored and frustrated.
Many people think electronic cigarettes are a safe alternative to smoking. Are they?
The discovery of horse meat disguised as beef in supermarkets is outraging many Europeans. Is it because a taboo has been broken?
The 11-day Berlin International Film Festival, the annual Berlinale, kicks off on February 7 with many little-known films from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and Central Asia slated to complement more celebrated entries.
A rights advocacy groups says more than 50 countries cooperated with the CIA's secret program to detain and forcefully interrogate terrorist suspects following deadly attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze says Russia's occupation of her country's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is a threat to regional and European stability.
Differences between the United States and Russia have gone on sharp display at the annual Munich Security Conference.
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