Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
At the height of the Cold War, pianist Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., better known as Van Cliburn, connected with the Soviet Union in a way no other American could.
China wants to turn Pakistan's port of Gwadar, located in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, into a regional trade hub and possible naval facility. Islamabad sees the potential to improve the local economy and mood of the province's inhabitants. Many Baluchis, however, see an effort to sink their separatist aims.
Tehran says it is installing faster, more efficient centrifuges for uranium enrichment, so clearly sanctions don't work. That is, unless Iran is bluffing.
In Azerbaijan, the life of former leader Heydar Aliyev is inspiring a new field of study. It’s called AliyevScience.
How would you feel if you were forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan as a child laborer? You can find out by playing an online game whose goal is to make you bored and frustrated.
Many people think electronic cigarettes are a safe alternative to smoking. Are they?
The discovery of horse meat disguised as beef in supermarkets is outraging many Europeans. Is it because a taboo has been broken?
The 11-day Berlin International Film Festival, the annual Berlinale, kicks off on February 7 with many little-known films from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and Central Asia slated to complement more celebrated entries.
A rights advocacy groups says more than 50 countries cooperated with the CIA's secret program to detain and forcefully interrogate terrorist suspects following deadly attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze says Russia's occupation of her country's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is a threat to regional and European stability.
Differences between the United States and Russia have gone on sharp display at the annual Munich Security Conference.
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden has said at a major international security conference in Germany that the United States is willing to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership over the Iranian nuclear crisis.
Uzbekistan's Central Bank says citizens will only be able to get hard currency "electronically" from now on. What does that mean?
Many people think phoning on Skype offers more protection from government eavesdropping than using ordinary phones or mobiles. But does it?
A new draft antismoking law could deprive Central Asian migrants in Russia of one of their few pleasures -- a smokeless tobacco called nasvai.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has brought tens of thousands of protesters to Islamabad and vows not to leave until the Pakistani government resigns. Who looks set to gain the most from the confrontation?
Tens of thousands of Sunnis have been taking to the streets in Iraq, the largest wave of Sunni unrest since U.S. troops withdrew a year ago and pose a major challenge for the government. But the demonstrators' spiraling list of demands has left Baghdad uncertain how to contain the crisis.
Influential Pakistani Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is world famous for his 2010 fatwa against terrorism. Now, he wants to lead a millions-strong march on Islamabad on January 14 to demand clean parliamentary elections.
The Arab Spring began with high hopes for a better future. Two years later, things look more complicated.
Across Europe, austerity measures are biting as authorities try to revive their sickly economies. But there's one area at least that's enjoying a bit of a boom. Increasingly, people are fleeing to the shadow economy to make ends meet in tough financial times.
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