Hendrix, Prince Guitars Expected to Make Noise at Auction
A guitar owned by American rocker Jimi Hendrix is expected to fetch more than 80,000 pounds ($101,000) when it goes under the hammer in London on Thursday as part of…
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Russia’s Norilsk: Arctic City of Extreme Cold, Massive Pollution
Russia’s northernmost city, Norilsk, is a place of extremes. With a population over 100,000, it lies in the freezing Siberian Arctic, dependent on imported food. Norilsk’s economy is driven by…
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Russia’s northernmost city, Norilsk, is a place of extremes. With a population over 100,000, it lies in the freezing Siberian Arctic, dependent on imported food. Norilsk’s economy is driven by…
continue readingSerbian PM Cuts Short Brussels Visit In Dispute With Croatia
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has cut short a visit to Brussels amid a dispute with European Union-member Croatia. …
continue readingSerbian PM Cuts Short Brussels Visit In Dispute With Croatia
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has cut short a visit to Brussels amid a dispute with European Union-member Croatia. …
continue readingWest African Leaders to Ask Gambia’s Jammeh to Step Down
West African leaders will travel to Gambia on Tuesday in an effort to convince longtime President Yahya Jammeh to step down after his loss in the December 1 election. Jammeh…
continue readingWest African Leaders to Ask Gambia’s Jammeh to Step Down
West African leaders will travel to Gambia on Tuesday in an effort to convince longtime President Yahya Jammeh to step down after his loss in the December 1 election. Jammeh…
continue readingAfrican Officials Seek Local Value-added Food Products
African agricultural officials have converged on Cameroon to map out ways of processing the continent’s enormous food resources instead of exporting the raw products to Europe. The international trade fair…
continue readingIsraeli PM Plans Visit To Baku On Way To Kazakhstan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled for a seven-hour stop-over visit in Azerbaijan on his was to Kazakhstan. …
continue readingSavchenko Meets Russia-Backed Separatist Leaders, Stirring Outrage
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko has confirmed that she met with the leadership of Russia-backed separatists for consultations on prisoner swaps. The move triggered rebukes from her party for what it…
continue readingSavchenko Meets Russia-Backed Separatist Leaders, Stirring Outrage
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko has confirmed that she met with the leadership of Russia-backed separatists for consultations on prisoner swaps. The move triggered rebukes from her party for what it…
continue readingEx-Parliamentary Chief In Breakaway Moldovan Region Wins Self-Styled Presidency
Election results from Moldova’s breakaway Transdniester region show the head of the region’s self-styled parliament has won the presidency by easily winning more than 50 percent of the first round…
continue readingFormer Georgian Interior Ministry Official Charged in ‘Photographers’ Case’
The Georgian Prosecutor-General’s Office has charged one man and opened a criminal case against a second in connection with the so-called “photographers’ case,” in which four photojournalists were found guilty…
continue readingGuterres Sworn In As New UN Chief, Replaces Ban Ki-moon At New Year
Antonio Guterres, Portugal’s former prime minister, has been sworn in as Secretary-General of the United Nations. …
continue readingAfter Sinkhole Scare, Bashkortostan Locals Now Fear Police, Too
Police crack down on fearful residents fleeing the effects and further risk from sinkholes in Russia’s Bashkortostan region. …
continue readingSoviet-Era Dissident Bukovsky Goes On Trial In U.K.
Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky went on trial in Britain on December 12 on charges of creating and possessing indecent images of children. …
continue readingSoviet-Era Dissident Bukovsky Goes On Trial In U.K.
Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky went on trial in Britain on December 12 on charges of creating and possessing indecent images of children. …
continue readingNew Probe Sought As Expert Claims Kazakh President’s Former Son-In-Law Was Murdered
A German expert says he believes that Rakhat Aliev, a former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev who was found dead in an Austrian jail last year, was murdered. …
continue readingU.S. Senate To Probe Alleged Russian Hacking To Help Trump Win Presidency
U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has announced an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee into a CIA assessment that Russia’s government used hackers to try to help Republican President-elect…
continue readingU.S. Senate To Probe Alleged Russian Hacking To Help Trump Win Presidency
U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has announced an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee into a CIA assessment that Russia’s government used hackers to try to help Republican President-elect…
continue readingUkraine Searches For Culprit After Cyberattacks On Finance Ministry, Treasury
Ukrainian authorities are still looking for the culprits nearly a week after troublesome cyberattacks against official financial institutions that appeared to be designed to inflict maximum chaos on end-of-the-year payments.…
continue readingUkraine Searches For Culprit After Cyberattacks On Finance Ministry, Treasury
Ukrainian authorities are still looking for the culprits nearly a week after troublesome cyberattacks against official financial institutions that appeared to be designed to inflict maximum chaos on end-of-the-year payments.…
continue readingMacedonia’s Ruling Party Appears To Win Narrow Victory Over Opposition
Election results in Macedonia suggest the conservative ruling party beat out the opposition Social Democrats (SDSM) by a slim margin in the first parliamentary elections since a wiretapping scandal plunged…
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Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL’s broadcast region and beyond. …
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