OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- An RFE/RL's correspondent has been attacked in Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Osh while preparing an investigative report about the suspicious...
Aeroflot has canceled or delayed more than a half-dozen flights that used the Sukhoi Superjet, days after 41 people were killed in a crash-landing at a Moscow a...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Seven Russian tourists on a hiking holiday in Siberia are feared dead after an avalanche on a ridge in the Altai region, the local emergencie...
The Mongolian couple contracted the illness after eating the raw meat of a marmot, a type of rodent. Following their deaths, a six-day quarantine was declared o...
It was supposed to be a harmless liaison, starting as it sometimes did: an attractive profile on a gay site, a few messages about nothing much at all, an exchan...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court found a Norwegian man guilty on Tuesday of gathering espionage about Russian nuclear submarines and jailed him for 14 years i...
Leader for nearly 30 years Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down in March and called for vote next year, but interim president now says it will be in two months.......
Several suspects on trial over a deadly blast in the St. Petersburg subway in 2017 have alleged that they were tortured in custody as authorities sought people ...
GORI, Georgia -- A jury in the eastern city of Gori has convicted a local shepherd of murdering an American-Georgian couple and their 4-year-old son in a crime ...
Dozens of people were detained in a second day of protests at plans to rename the capital after President Nursultan Nazarbaev....
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Some businesses owned by Central Asians have been shuttered, bus services disrupted, and Kyrgyz migrants in Sakha-Yakutia urged to stay home to avoid attacks fo...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Ural Airlines passenger plane carrying 225 people bound for Moscow made an emergency landing in Baku on Monday after the cabin crew thought...
Human Rights Watch says a prominent Tajik opposition activist was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured in Russia and Tajikistan before he was allowed to return to th...
An explosion at a clinic in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Andijon has injured 22 people. Uzbekistan's Emergency Ministry says a blast on February 26 in the boile...
A Belgian woman has been killed by an avalanche in Kyrgyzstan's northern Issyk-Kul region, local authorities said on February 20.According to the authorities, 3...
Russia’s parliament has voted to ban its soldiers from using smartphones and social networks after a series of open-source investigations revealed their secret ...
Russian news reports say that a flurry of fake bomb calls has prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands. The Interfax news agency said the city’s emergency s...
Amnesty International has called on Russian authorities to immediately free a Danish member of the Jehovah's Witnesses who was arrested in May 2017, a month aft...
Russian authorities have released video showing the dramatic moment an abducted businessman took the law into his own hands to ward off his kidnappers in the su...
Russia's Justice Ministry has proposed a bill decriminalizing bribery and other corruption acts committed under "exceptional circumstances....
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers backed a proposal on Thursday mandating jail terms of up to 15 days for insulting authorities online and another prohibitin...
On the first day of 2019, 42-year-old Turahon Nurmatov was out in the pastureland of southwestern Tajikistan, tending a local family's flock. Nurmatov never bro...
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