Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
The return of coin currency in Belarus has led to a spike in choking cases among young children.
Eleven hard-liners in the Soviet government, military, Communist Party, and KGB were named in a Russian court as the organizers of the failed August 1991 coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
The challenge of preventing terrorists from glorifying attacks and spreading propaganda on the Internet is becoming more difficult as global social-media platforms bring live video-streaming capabilities to hundreds of millions of users.
Russia's 2016 Olympic wrestling team -- once expected to be one of the best in the world -- is in shambles over in-the-ring brawls, athlete boycotts, and scandalous referee rulings.
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 have been killed in their guesthouse in a remote village of northern Afghanistan's Balkh Province.
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