Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
The man in charge trying to save Olympic boxing is fighting to clear his reputation amid allegations that he is an Uzbek crime boss with ties to the global heroin trade.
Museum director blocks film crew from North Ossetian village and medieval burial ground, saying the script casts Ossetians in an "unfavorable light."
With constitutional changes poised to introduce an all-powerful presidential system, Turkey's elections on June 24 are arguably the country's most important in recent history.
Facing militant death threats for helping the United States, Afghans and Iraqis have taken the U.S. government to court for swift decisions on special immigrant visas.
It was bad enough they had to grow a new crop. Now some Uzbek chili-pepper farmers complain they have to line up foreign buyers as well.
A Russian filmmaker who documented North Korea's propagandists says they'll use the Singapore summit to bolster Kim Jong Un's image in Pyongyang.
Ukraine's prime minister has told his country not to worry about a wildfire that has ravaged one of the most contaminated forests in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. But some scientists say they want more information -- and more transparency -- about what have become regular wildfires near the infamous former nuclear power plant.
Psychoanalyst and terrorism expert Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin says an often overlooked factor in the behavior of suicide attackers is how early child-rearing practices in so-called "shame-honor cultures" stunts the development of empathy.
Moscow has backed down from an attempt to block a German reporter who broke the Russian doping scandal from entering the country during the World Cup. But Hajo Seppelt tells RFE/RL it not yet clear what he will be able to actually report.
Investigators in France and Chechnya are trying to determine whether the Chechen-born man behind a Paris knife attack planned his rampage alone. RFE/RL has been talking to relatives and acquaintances of Khamzat Azimov about his background and possible ties to Islamic State militants.
Uzbek authorities have ordered that the homes of some 2,000 people in central Andijon be demolished to make way for new apartment blocks, with those evicted saying the tiny houses they've been promised are insufficient compensation. It's a scenario that has been repeated across Uzbekistan since a 2013 government decree.
A video journalist who was upset over colleagues being killed, a producer with an eye for social stories, and a trainee who believed in the power of the media. RFE/RL was hit hard on a deadly day for journalists in Afghanistan.
Yerevan's usually somber commemoration of the deaths of Armenians under Ottoman rule during the World War I era has been tempered by the joyous aftermath of Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian's resignation.
Away from the street protests, Armenian women registered their discontent with Serzh Sarkisian and the government by banging pots and pans late at night.
Frustrated by power cuts caused by Taliban attacks on far-away transmission towers, a growing number of Kabul residents are calling on the government to heed a Taliban demand for electricity in areas under the militant group's control.
With no officially sanctioned women's league to play in, a 16-year-old in Kabul has set up her own cricket team to get on the pitch.
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