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.
Demonstrators around the world have become accustomed to taking to the streets armed with handheld devices that can help them spread their message via social media. In Turkey's ongoing protests, it is a simple and inexpensive smart-phone app that is giving protesters an edge against the authorities.
In a working class neighborhood of Istanbul not far from the heart of recent antigovernment demonstrations, native son Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to enjoy strong support from locals.
As protests in Istanbul gear up for another day, RFE/RL correspondent Glenn Kates reports from the heart of the demonstrations.
Three close friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspected co-conspirator in the Boston Marathon bombings, now face five to eight years in prison after they were accused of obstructing the investigation. A clue to the friends' conflicted emotions on the night of the massive manhunt for Tsarnaev may lie in a post on a Russian social-networking site.
Russia's embargo of Georgian wines may have turned out to be a blessing in disguise. To reach new markets, the country's winemakers are adopting new European technologies -- and rediscovering ancient Georgian traditions.
The massacre at a Connecticut elementary school last week has spurred a Moscow-based gun group to be even more zealous in its pursuit of the right to bear arms for all Russians.
