Glenn Kates is the former managing editor for digital at Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. He now reports for RFE/RL as a freelancer.
Uzbekistan is engaged in a massive PR campaign to convince the West it is reforming. But despite not-so-subtle efforts by Shavkat Mirziyoev's administration to create distance, Islam Karimov's shadow still looms three years after his death.
Votes are being tallied after Uzbekistan's first parliamentary elections since President Shavkat Mirziyoev came to power nearly three years ago.
In a series of forums with candidates and officials before upcoming parliamentary elections, Tashkent is making a final preelection push to prove the country is serious about reform. But with no genuine opposition parties participating and continuing social restrictions, rights groups see some change but say Uzbekistan still has a long way to go.
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, arrived in Kyiv on July 25. The events of the next 24 hours could play a key role months later, as the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump proceeds.
Fortifications and flags project Ukrainian power in Kharkiv, just down the road from Russia. But more than a year after a failed attempt by pro-Russian activists to seize control of Ukraine's second-largest city, symbols of strength cannot mask the tension that threatens to undermine Kyiv.
Many call it the first genocide of the 20th Century. Others go to great -- sometimes tortuous -- lengths to avoid the 'g' word. Here's a rundown of who says what about the mass killings and deportations of up to 1.5 million Armenians during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
With their swift arrests of five suspects in the killing of Boris Nemtsov, Russian authorities hoped to present a clear-cut case with no loose ends. They were wrong.
A U.S. senator has accused a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation of providing his staff with misleading photos of Russian tanks allegedly entering Ukraine. But the deputy said to have provided the photos denies the account.
The Kremlin has long treated the lives of Vladimir Putin's family like a state secret. That may be about to change.
The self-declared Donetsk People's Republic says it wants to host a summit of separatists, including participants from Texas, Venice and Spain's Basque region.
As Russian-backed rebels make gains in eastern Ukraine, battlefield videos are raising concerns that war crimes are being committed.
A claim by the Ukrainian president's administration that it was mostly Ukrainians who liberated Auschwitz and Europe threatens to deepen a rift that reflects current animosity and deep historic tension between Moscow and its Soviet-era subjects.
In detailed documents provided to Norway's trade ministry, an anonymous sender alleges a telecom was complicit in bribe payments to the family of Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Twenty-four hours after the massacre at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, a pro-Kremlin analyst was already on TV blaming a U.S. conspiracy. Others have said the magazine's artists offended Christians and may not have been worth defending anyway.
In 2014, Russian propaganda outlets ramped up beyond Russia's borders. If the Kremlin's aim at home is to convince a captive audience, the goal abroad may be to confuse.
The elections held in eastern Ukraine by the pro-Russian separatists may not have been recognized by anyone but Russia, but that may be all that matters.
Ukrainian voters have given the government of President Petro Poroshenko a clear mandate for a pro-European future. But there are still issues of concern following the October 26 vote. Here are 10 takeaways.
The Donetsk street artist best known for his satirical depiction of a suicidal separatist commander is now working on a more serious comic book based on his time as a captive of pro-Russian separatists.
For the third time in six months a Ukrainian defense minister has been forced out. Why is Kyiv repeatedly replacing its top military official in the midst of a war?
Amid scenes of Russian paratroopers being paraded by the Ukrainian military, secret Russian funerals, and mothers asking where their sons are, fighting in eastern Ukraine appears now to be tangibly touching Russians.
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