Kaisa Alliksaar is a social-media producer for the Central Newsroom of RFE/RL in Prague.
Some countries’ borders don’t seem to make any sense at all. In the first episode of a three-part series we're calling Mad Maps, we take a look at crazy national boundaries in Central Asia, which have the power to spark violence. Why are they so complicated?
The antics of Turkmenistan’s authoritarian leader, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, have recently been the butt of jokes by Western comedians. But the daily realities in the country are grim – and unlikely to change.
In eastern Estonia, it’s possible to briefly enter Russia without any paperwork, but some unusual conditions apply.
It's a "snail" in Italy, but it's a "worm" in Hungary. You might be surprised at how descriptive some of the words for the "at" sign are in other languages.
A set of posters in Estonia appearing to advocate ethnic segregation has stoked anger among members of the country's Russian minority and caused dormant ethnic tensions to resurface ahead of parliamentary elections in March.
