Central Asians are pushing back against Russian lecturing, racist comments, and mistreatment of migrant laborers. Joining ...

Anything is possible in Russian PresidentVladimir Putin’s “Year of The Family,” as he calls 2024. So is fining those who promote “hostile, American child-free ideology.” While Putin says a family with ...

Georgia is famous for its heady wines, but many vineyard owners in the Kakheti region are swapping vines for hazelnuts because of declining prices for grapes. One vineyard owner told RFE/RL that, ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on October 11. It was Erdogan's fourth visit to Serbia since 2017. Referring to one of Turkey's successful ...

The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The ...

Pakistan has banned the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a civil organization campaigning for the rights of the country’s Pashtun ...

Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of ...

Barring an act of God, and despite a serious economic downturn in recent years, Azerbaijan's incumbent president, Ilham Aliyev, will almost certainly be reelected on April 11 with a landslide ...

Tens of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns attended the beginning of a three-day Jirga or grand assembly on October 11 near Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. The meeting was called by the nonviolent PTM, or ...

Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the ...

RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

The United States has recently undertaken harsh measures against the ruling party in Georgia. The moves come in response to increasing authoritarian steps and heightening anti-Western rhetoric from ...