Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
An Afghanistan analyst says the Taliban has the ability to keep its side of a bargain reached with U.S. negotiators to start an Afghan-led peace process. But do all sides have the will to move forward?
Kosovo has had three numbers to directly call police in an emergency in the past 20 years. Most Kosovars don't know they should be dialing 192.
After dismal harvests in 2018, Uzbekistan is consolidating small farms into larger enterprises. But some small farmers worry they are taking the blame for problems beyond their control in an inefficient, tightly controlled state-run sector.
Social media has brought many people to account. It has outed racists, exposed corruption and crimes, and given a voice to those who previously had no avenue to call for justice. But it has also spawned a hyper-sensitive outrage culture that its critics say is destroying productive discourse.
A Bulgarian minister has threatened to try to block Macedonia's bids to join the EU and NATO over Skopje's insistence that Macedonian is its own language.
Police in one district of corruption-plagued Uzbekistan have been forced to swear on the Koran that they will be good cops.
Ersatz bread from Ukraine's 1932-33 famine was preserved for decades as criminal "evidence" against a church choir conductor who saved the scraps to tell future generations of the "terrible hunger."
A mother in Kazakhstan tells how she lost her teenage daughter to Islamic State militants in Syria.
The leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate says steps toward independence from Moscow must be carried out carefully to avoid giving the Kremlin a pretext for further Russian incursions into Ukrainian territory.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton has vowed that President Donald Trump's administration will "squeeze Iran" with maximum economic pressure in response to Tehran's "malign" behavior in the Middle East and around the world.
When the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians took steps toward recognizing the Ukrainian church's independence from Moscow, the move raised the attention of Orthodox Christian believers on both sides of a dispute between churches in Serbia and Macedonia.
The future of Olympic boxing is being tested by a political prizefight between two Central Asian boxing bosses.
The rights group Amnesty International is determined to expose fake Internet videos and confirm the authenticity of real footage documenting human rights abuses.
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton's harsh warning for the International Criminal Court and anyone who cooperates with it are just the latest public assault on a tribunal that has faced an uphill battle from its inception.
Russia says it is staging its largest-ever war games over the next week. But some experts on Russia say Moscow may be exaggerating troop numbers to send a message to the West about Russia's military power in the Asia-Pacific region.
One of the tens of thousands of people uprooted by the lightning war a decade ago between Russia and Georgia over two breakaway republics, doctor Nunu Chovelidze still can't get any closer to home than the hospital named after her old village.
A pending court case in Kazakhstan has provided new evidence that ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in western China are being rounded up in "reeducation camps."
Activists in Tbilisi say health officials should pay attention to the tragic tale of a transgender woman who died in a Batumi clinic from an AIDS-related illness, arguing that transgender patients face unique difficulties that must be considered to ensure their "honor and dignity" under current antidiscrimination laws.
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