Daisy Sindelar is the vice president and editor in chief of RFE/RL.
Kyrgyz officials accuse top religious authorities of colluding with a controversial Islamic group to send young children to foreign religious schools. Some family members with children in the program are taking exception.
The Russian media has sought to portray new guidelines to cut down on the number of cases filed from countries like Russia as a failure of the European Court of Human Rights. But lawyers and observers close to the court say the new rules will make it easier for important rights cases to be brought to trial quickly and efficiently.
Outrage over Tymoshenko's jailing last autumn and what is seen as her continuing harsh treatment has already cost Ukraine plenty, particularly in its relations with Europe.
To counter bad publicity, hundreds of Ukrainians have flooded online to offer free lodging to Euro 2012 guests looking for an alternative to pricey hotels or a chance to mingle with the locals.
Eurovision fans across the world are clearing their schedules to watch the finals of the globe's most famous song contest. But TV screens may be blank in Armenia, where officials -- citing rising tensions with this year's host Azerbaijan -- have pulled out of the competition and threatened to block broadcasts of the show.
As the oil-rich nation of Azerbaijan prepares to host Eurovision for the first time, critics are pointing to numerous human rights violations that have flourished under the autocratic regime of President Ilham Aliyev -- and say that Eurovision officials and other European authorities are willingly turning a blind eye.
As Baku prepares to host the 57th Eurovision Song Contest -- a bejeweled meringue of a spectacle, with unabashedly gay overtones -- the country's unyielding stance on sexual minorities is coming under fresh scrutiny.
Authorities might have hoped that Moscow's tenacious protest movement would die down after hundreds of demonstrators were summarily arrested at a May 6 rally ahead of Vladimir Putin's presidential inauguration. But rather than giving up, protesters are adapting their tactics.
The results of Serbia's parliamentary and presidential elections on May 6 show a country almost evenly divided between pro-Western and nationalist camps. With none of the front-runners winning a decisive victory, the new focus is on the parliamentary contest's third-place finisher -- the Socialist Party of late strongman leader Slobodan Milosevic.
A new television game show in Georgia, "Women's Logic," features scantily clad women attempting -- and often failing -- to answer basic trivia questions about history, math, and science. Critics say the show is feeding a toxic stereotype and want broadcaster Imedi to take it off the air.
The Russian press has frequently profiled the remarkable story of Murzakan Kuchiev, a North Ossetian man, born in 1890, whose family claimed he had survived the "Titanic" disaster. But one of the world's preeminent researchers on the century-old shipping disaster says Kuchiev's "Titanic" tale is almost certainly not true.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is famously bad with words. But that hasn't stopped him from earning more than $2 million as the author of numerous books on politics and foreign investment. Observers say such a deal isn't entirely unrealistic -- as long as everyone in Ukraine buys at least two copies of each of his books.
Murkazan Kuchiev's spectacular claim of having survived the sinking of the "Titanic" has received frequent coverage in the Russian media. But it remains a mystery whether the North Ossetian man was in fact a passenger on the doomed vessel.
As the world gets ready to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the "Titanic," we look at the story of an Armenian passenger who fled the Ottoman Empire only to find himself on the ill-fated ship, and yet he lived to tell the tale.
Amid the drinks and chatter of a correspondents’ reunion at Sarajevo's Holiday Inn – which 20 years ago served as the main base for foreign journalists covering the war -- it soon becomes clear that there is only one Sarajevo.
Sarajevo-born photographer Rikard Larma is responsible for capturing some of the most memorable images from the nearly four-year siege of the Bosnian city. Now, as Sarajevo marks the 20-year anniversary of the start of the siege, RFE/RL speaks to 21-year-old Skender Basic, the subject of one of Larma’s most famous photographs.
Two decades ago, the residents of Sarajevo spent nearly four years under a siege by Serb paramilitaries that left them with desperately low supplies of food, water, and electricity. RFE/RL reports about one siege survivor who relied on a wartime cookbook and the kinship of her neighbors to help make the most of a desperate situation.
April 6 marks 20 years since the start of the siege of Sarajevo, a 44-month blockade of the city by Bosnian Serb forces. All of Bosnia was ravaged by the war, but it was the siege of its capital city, together with the Sarajevo market massacre, that represented the worst of the horrors of the Bosnian War. RFE/RL reports from Sarajevo, a city that refused to die but where the war lives on.
A new study by a Yale University economist suggests that the language you speak can have an impact on your long-term well-being by affecting how you think about saving money, smoking, exercise, and even obesity.
Uzbek authorities recently accused millions of pensioners of receiving inflated pension payments and demanded that they hand the money back.
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