Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
U.S. President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order temporarily banning refugees from all foreign countries and aliens from seven blacklisted, predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Who is affected, and what does it mean for them?
Populist parties are reshaping Western politics as they challenge open borders and free trade.
Italy’s December 4 referendum could be an indicator for whether it will be the next country to exit the EU.
Fidel Castro cast himself as a social revolutionary, but human rights groups say he created a repressive regime that punished virtually all forms of dissent.
Ten years ago, a former Russian spy and vocal critic of Vladimir Putin was fatally poisoned in downtown London in a case that severely strained relations between Russia and the United Kingdom. Aleksandr Litvinenko's killers have never been brought to justice.
Pro-EU candidate Maia Sandu is being hit with smear attacks as Moldova's presidential race heads for a November 13 runoff.
Donald Trump has won one of the most astonishing victories in U.S. political history by defying poll predictions to beat Hillary Clinton. Here's how.
Montenegro's pro-Russian opposition parties have rejected charges by the country's chief prosecutor that Russian nationalists organized an alleged October coup attempt aimed at assassinating pro-Western leader Milo Djukanovic over his efforts to join NATO.
Moldovans are picking a new president on October 30 in a fresh indication of where voters believe their future lies -- with the EU or Russia.
The Czech president's snub of a Holocaust survivor due to receive a state medal in Prague has outraged many of his countrymen.
A Kyrgyz family had to bury a mother three times in different cemeteries over her choice of faiths, highlighting an all-too-common discrepancy between law and local practice.
Poland's Andrzej Wajda was more than an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. He was also a dissident Soviet-era director whose movies offered rare criticism of the communist system.
Azerbaijan is holding a referendum on September 26 on constitutional amendments to expand its president's powers, but voters have little information about what they are being asked to approve.
Most of the Romany families in a small village in southern Ukraine have fled after a day of mob violence targeting them over the killing of a 9-year-old girl.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov visits Berlin on August 29 to discuss economic relations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Human rights activists hope she will use the opportunity to urge him to end repression in his country.
Russia's confinement of a Tatar activist to a psychiatric clinic in Crimea is raising fears that Moscow is reviving a Soviet-era practice to intimidate opponents of the peninsula's annexation into silence.
Rampant development in Tbilisi is pitting city hall against a feisty group of activists determined to preserve what's left of the city's green spaces.
A suicide in Georgia has given new life to efforts to soften the country's harsh drug laws as the country heads toward parliamentary elections.
As Turkey cracks down hard on perceived enemies like the Gulen movement at home, it also looks set to escalate the controversy over the global Islamic education movement by pressing other countries to follow suit.
A little-known Armenian political grouping has grabbed headlines by storming a police station in Yerevan, killing at least one police officer and taking others hostage, and demanding the release of its leader. What is the Founding Parliament movement and what does it want?
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