Pete Baumgartner is the editor for Central Asia and China for RFE/RL's Central Newsroom in Prague.
The mayor of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has pledged to publicize the names of those who apply for divorces in an attempt to keep married couples together.
Georgians are at the polls to decide whether to stick with the ruling Georgian Dream party or give controversial ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili’s allies a second chance to rule the post-Soviet Caucasus country.
The producer of a Kyrgyz film about the Great Urkun, the mass killing of ethnic Kyrgyz by Russian forces after an uprising in 1916, says Kyrgyz officials have not yet approved his film for viewing because they fear offending the Kremlin.
The Olympic doping scandal is destroying President Vladimir Putin's vision of restoring Russian sport as an international superpower.
Just months before the Summer Olympics, Russia is taking measures to please international bodies so its track-and-field team -- which has been banned for doping -- can compete in Rio de Janeiro.
The ongoing political crisis in Macedonia is rooted in last year's mass protests over alleged government involvement in election fraud, media manipulation, judicial corruption, and a murder cover-up.
The Russian squad for hockey's under-18 world championship has been subbed out after players reportedly failed tests for meldonium, the latest doping scandal to hit Russian sports.
An uptick in fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists reported by OSCE monitors in recent weeks has weakened a shaky truce between the combatants.
Tensions have heightened between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan over control of a mountain along their disputed border, with the Russian-led security alliance CSTO getting involved in the row.
Iconic former Polish President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa has rejected fresh reports that revive allegations he was a paid informant for the communist-era secret services in a scandal that some say is politically motivated.
The so-called decommunization of Ukraine edged forward on February 4 as parliament approved the scrapping of 175 names of towns, villages, and districts across the country and replaced them with non-Soviet alternatives.
The worst year in global freedom in a decade saw Russia and China cracking down more due to "fear of social unrest" and particularly bad rankings for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Belarus, the rights monitor Freedom House reports.
An international monitoring group says people around the world demonstrated to governments in 2015 that they must become more transparent and tackle the large-scale corruption that continues to plague so many countries and hinder their development.
Phone conversations between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair when they were in office show the U.S. president was worried about “new” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s commitment to democracy.
Kyrgyz were variously enraged and bemused after a British expat working at a foreign-owned gold mine jokingly compared a beloved local equine delicacy to a "horses penis." Michael McFeat is already paying a price for the perceived slur.
New apps and other tech ideas are emerging to help match some of the 1 million migrants arriving in Europe with people who are trying to help them.
A massive tumble in Azerbaijan's currency has shuttered shops and sent people scrambling to convert their manats into foreign currency or durable goods.
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