Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
After 17 hours of negotiations, eurozone leaders on July 13 offered Athens a new 86 billion euro bailout ($95 billion) -- the third bailout for Greece since 2010. This is what you need to know.
From airspace violations to overflights to provocative military exercises, in 2014, Russia tested and probed NATO's defenses more than at any time since the Cold War.
The Russian Central Bank has raised its interest rate to a staggering 17 percent in a move to stop the ruble devaluing further. But the ruble keeps falling and the bank's action risks weakening Russia's ailing economy further.
As the value of Russia's ruble tumbles amid low oil global prices and Western sanctions, it is taking the currencies of many former Soviet republics down with it.
Tens of thousands of Kyrgyz are changing their names to sound more Russian in the belief it will make their lives easier.
Ukrainian journalists are protesting the government's creation of a new Ministry of Information that Kyiv says is needed to confront Russian propaganda. Some journalists fear their own efforts to gather truth could become subject to oversight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's says he is breaking off South Stream because of EU opposition to the project. What he didn't say is Brussels would approve the project if Russia complied with EU anti-monopoly laws, something Moscow refuses to do.
Pope Francis is reaching out to Muslims and Orthodox Christian believers as he visits Istanbul on his first official visit to Turkey. The gesture is part of efforts to build better interfaith relations to counter fundamentalism and terror.
In many countries, oil generates windfall profits that enrich only the governing elite. Maybe they should look to Norway for a better way to manage their oil wealth.
The world could look very different depending on the success or failure of the Iran nuclear talks.
Murdering journalists is one way to keep the public in the dark about criminal activities. It is also virtually risk-free, since worldwide 90 percent of the killers never face justice.
In many parts of Eurasia, people think they are far enough away from Africa to be safe from Ebola. Is that a false sense of security?
The price of oil has fallen some 20 percent since June, spelling big trouble for oil exporting countries like Russia and Iran. What's behind the drop?
Speaking in Prague, the foreign minister of Iraq's Kurdish regional government is calling on Turkey to open its border to volunteers seeking to reinforce the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani.
Islamic State owes its battlefield success to suicide bombers, extreme brutality, and a continuing flow of new recruits.
There is supposed to be a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. So why is there so much fighting around Donetsk airport?
Just days after a crowd in Kharkiv pulled down a massive statue of Lenin, body parts from the statue are for sale in Ukraine. Who is selling them, and why?
A group of six internationally-known Iranian filmmakers have started an Internet campaign urging Tehran and world powers to reach a deal to end the crisis over Tehran's nuclear program.
The new U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement sets forth the conditions under which some American soldiers will remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of this year. Here are five things to know about its contents.
Is the Islamic State extremist group expanding to Afghanistan and Pakistan? The possibility is growing as some militants in the region are pledging allegiance to the organization's leadership.
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