Andrew E. Kramer
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 07:44
In Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, the militant received extensive taxpayer-funded military training from the United States to help counter drug-running and extremism along the border with Afghanistan.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 07:18
Since the Ukraine war, Estonia has stepped up training for members of the Estonian Defense League, teaching them how to become insurgents, right down to the making of improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s, the weapons that plagued the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 06:47
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced a surprise military exercise on Monday that ordered troops garrisoned throughout the nation’s southern region to full combat readiness, a move that appeared intended to unnerve neighbors.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:40
The Uzbek government, lobbied by rights groups and pressured quietly by the United States to free a high-profile political prisoner, has finally revealed a secret: He died five years ago. Akram Yuldashev, one of the most prominent religious leaders in post-Soviet Central Asia, died in prison in 2010 at the age of 52, the Uzbek authorities confirmed this month.
Friday, November 13, 2015 - 06:48
An Uzbek detainee sometimes called the world’s longest-serving political prisoner by rights groups was released on Thursday, having spent 21 years behind bars on various pretexts and trumped-up charges.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 07:53
Ruslan Pukhov, the director of the Center for Analysis of Technologies and Strategies, said Mr. Putin abandoned the bases in Cuba and Vietnam early in his first presidency, when relations with the United States had not yet curdled. “It was a big mistake to lose this facility back in 2001,” Mr. Pukhov said.