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RFE/RL’s Russian Service, known in Russia as Radio Svoboda (Liberty), has two correspondents on the scene in the republic of North Ossetia where gunmen today stormed a school and took…

Sunday’s presidential election in Chechnya was ostensibly a landslide victory for Alu Alkhanov, the Kremlin-backed candidate, but Chechens and experts interviewed by RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service say the voting was…

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who has ruled his country with an iron fist for more than ten years, is no longer a premier player in Ukrainian politics, according to politicians…

Melahat Nasibova, a correspondent for RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service, announced that she would appeal a guilty verdict announced today by the Nakhichevan City court, in a libel case filed by the…

Former Iraqi Governing Council member and head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Jalal Talabani discussed the upcoming trial of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in an exclusive interview with…

In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL, U.S. Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson said that her government believes that “engagement, rather than isolation, is the best way to encourage development” in that…

An RFE/RL correspondent sent to cover debate in the Belarusian Parliament today was twice denied access to the parliament and physically removed from the Parliament Building.

A correspondent for RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service was called into court on June 10 to answer libel charges brought against her by the head of a local drug abuse rehabilitation center.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Thomas A.Dine welcomed the creation of “Radio New Europe.”