DUSHANBE -- After an initial denial, Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security (KDAM) says that the authorities have arrested 12 people suspected of pl...
MORINO/SERYODKA, Russia -- Colorful Christmas lights festoon the streets of the remote Pskov Oblast village of Morino from October until May. The cheerful decor...
JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan -- A local journalist in Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Jalal-Abad has been stabbed and rushed to hospital. Colleagues of Sanrabia Satybal...
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service claimed on November 7 that it thwarted attempted drone attacks at World Cup events this summer. Bortnikov didn't s...
The Russian government has approved regulation aimed at tightening control over popular anonymous messenger services by identifying users by their cell phone nu...
The Moscow City Court said on Friday that it denied an appeal by the popular messaging service Telegram and said the company would have to pay the 800,000 roubl...
The media-freedom representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has condemned an "exceptionally high" fine imposed on October...
RFE/RL has just released a 10-part documentary film called Not In Our Name, which looks at some of the people from Central Asia who went to Syria and Iraq to jo...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Floods have killed at least six people near Russia’s southern Black Sea coast, Interfax and other news agencies reported on Friday....
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DUSHANBE -- Seventeen Tajiks have gone on trial on suspicion of involvement in the killing of four foreign cyclists on a southern mountain road in late July. Th...
A researcher with Amnesty International was "abducted, beaten, and subjected to terrifying mock executions" in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia befo...
According to the Telegram channel 112, the man was killed with two gunshots to the abdomen and head. Police officers and the apartment owner found his body afte...
A top Russian investigator involved in serious economic crimes and corruption cases has been shot dead in the Moscow region, officials say....
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Kazakh human rights activist Yelena Semyonova says she has been barred from traveling to Europe, where she was scheduled to meet with EU lawmakers to discuss pr...
AQTAU, Kazakhstan -- French journalist Vincent Prado has been detained in Kazakhstan while investigating the 2011 deadly protests in the southwestern town of Zh...
Beachgoers screamed in horror as a parasailing couple crashed into power lines - sending sparks flying - in an adventure that went horribly wrong at a tourist r...
In July this year, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper released footage showing Evgeny Makarov being brutally tortured by a group of guards at the Yarslavl prison in Ru...
An airport worker has died and 18 people were injured when a passenger plane skidded off the runway after landing at Sochi airport. Russia's Transportation Min...
The founder of Telegram defended the company’s new privacy policy, insisting it would not result in turning over users’ data to Russian intelligence agencies bu...
All 202 passengers plus crew members were safely evacuated from the Red Wings Tu-204 at Ufa in the Ural mountains. Tourists on flight number 808 filmed the lef...
A series of coordinated attacks against security forces were reported on Monday in Russia's volatile autonomous republic of Chechnya, with authorities claiming ...
BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan says it will set up a special police force to provide security for tourists who visit the Central Asian nation. The move follows examples ...
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