Daisy Sindelar is the vice president and editor in chief of RFE/RL.
If you believe in good omens, a rare season of amnesty augurs well for RFE/RL investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova's appeal this week for prison release. But it's far from certain that President Ilham Aliyev will be swayed by either condemnation or largesse in her particular case.
The violent weekend clashes between Ukrainian police and armed fighters from the Right Sector nationalist group have the potential to move the Ukrainian conflict to a new front on its westernmost border. We look at the multiethnic, independent-minded region of Transcarpathia, where some residents' roots lie closer to Hungary, Slovakia, Romania -- and even Russia -- than they do to Ukraine.
A Russian entrepreneur who helps organize the country's best-known competition on spelling and syntax has been questioned by prosecutors as a suspected "grammar Nazi."
A new viral video shows Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the European Parliament's Liberal Democrat alliance, excoriating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for courting closer ties with Russia and proposing to reinstate the death penalty.
Separatist authorities in Ukraine's self-declared Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics have announced they are abandoning plans to create a pro-Kremlin breakaway state. We look at the brief history of the so-called Novorossia project.
With less than three weeks until the start of the European Games in Baku, authorities are coming under criticism for shoddy construction practices believed to behind a May 19 fire that left 15 people dead.
An investigation by RFE/RL's Ukrainian-language television program, Schemes, has uncovered evidence suggesting President Petro Poroshenko used questionable means -- including his presidential power -- to obtain some of the most valuable land in Kyiv for a private family mansion.
Ukrainian Vladimir Talashko starred in one of the best-loved Soviet World War II films. Now he's angry about how the Kremlin downplays the role Ukrainians and others played in defeating the Nazis.
Red, purple, pink, blue-and-gold. Many people in post-Soviet countries are choosing any color, it seems, for their Victory Day symbols -- just not the orange-and-black of Russia's St. George ribbon.
A Russian-born student living in New York has come up with a novel way to bring a little brightness to lonely pensioners back home. Tweet A Babushka lets people write cheerful 140-character messages that Vera Golikova then translates and transcribes onto postcards to send to pensioners in retirement homes across Russia.
Russian authorities have seized several assets at a candy factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Russian city of Lipetsk. The move is certain to complicate Poroshenko's attempts to divest himself of his holdings. But some critics suggest he's not all that eager to sell.
Sergei Dyomin, one of the highest-earning artists in the Latvian capital, Riga, has built his fame around a singular motif -- re-creating Orthodox icons where the saints bear the faces of monkeys. Dyomin, an atheist, insists no disrespect is intended.
A 73-year-old Moscow pensioner made headlines last month when a local journalist filmed her singing the songs of her favorite French singers, including Charles Aznavour. On April 22, Babushka Lida, got to meet the crooner.
The world on April 24 will mark the 100th anniversary of what many Armenians call the "Great Catastrophe" -- the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians living in Ottoman-era Turkey.
Officials in Kyiv have suggested the April 16 killing of Ukrainian pro-Russian journalist Oles Buzyna was not a random slaying but a carefully timed hit.
Ahead of the centenary of what many -- including Pope Francis -- call the Armenian genocide, photojournalist Scout Tufankjian talks about her six-year project photographing ethnic Armenians whose predecessors fled Turkey to escape slaughter by Ottoman Turks a century ago.
A convoy of U.S. military troops has met with warm welcomes in the Baltics and Poland. But a number of bloggers and pro-Russian media said the cheers would stop once the convoy reached the Czech Republic.
This week's surprise ouster of oligarch and Dnipropetrovsk Governor Ihor Kolomoyskiy has prompted strong emotions among locals, who -- love him or hate him -- acknowledge the key role he's played in keeping the eastern region safe.
Ever wonder what the daily life of a Russian Internet troll is like? Dmitry Volchek of RFE/RL's Russian Service talks to a young blogger who recently spent two months working at the country's main "troll factory," the Internet Research center in St. Petersburg. He talks about the long hours, production quotas, and what he calls the "absurd" assignments that come with being a troll.
Russian-speakers this week were gripped by the story of a Moscow journalist's fleeting encounter with an elderly woman who enchanted him with her love for music, particularly the songs of French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour. Now the two have been invited to a concert by Aznavour, and may even meet the 90-year-old crooner himself.
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