Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Thirty years after the collapse of communism, Bulgarian high-school students are finally getting history textbooks that cover the totalitarian era in their country. But critics say the proposed textbooks contain "candid propaganda cliches" and ignore the fear and oppression of daily life.
State investigators elected by Bulgaria's ruling GERB party say they're unable to find any conflict of interest involving GERB officials who got lucrative luxury apartment deals after helping a Sofia real-estate developer.
The hit TV show is bolstering demand for related Soviet memorabilia
Overwhelmed doctors at Kabul’s Emergency Hospital refused to operate on Salema until her mother could prove her injuries were from a battle, and not domestic violence.
An Afghan woman who secretly studied literature in Herat under the Taliban's rule fears the ongoing peace process with the militant group could open a floodgate for "radical Islamists."
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.
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