RFE/RL
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 06:25
About a dozen protesters have demonstrated outside the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Washington, demanding that the government release Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service.
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 08:07
The leaders of 43 nongovernmental organizations in Kyrgyzstan have urged President Almazbek Atambaev not to put pressure on NGOs.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 04:31
A new study by the antigraft group Transparency International (TI) suggests that corruption remains rampant across much of the former Soviet Union and the Balkans.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:26
The United States says it is "increasingly concerned" over Azerbaijan's human rights record. "We are deeply concerned by recent restrictions on civil society activities in Azerbaijan," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on December 1 in Washington.
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 07:15
A group of U.S. Senators has urged Uzbek President Islam Karimov to release five prisoners whose detention "appears to be politically motivated."
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 07:14
An RFE/RL correspondent has been briefly detained and questioned by police in Baku, and warned "not to be critical of the government."
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 06:36
Georgian prosecutors have charged former President Mikheil Saakashvili with complicity in the 2006 murder of banker Sandro Girgvliani.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 07:01
The West has criticized an agreement between Russia and Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 07:11
Three Armenian helicopter crewmen who were killed when their military aircraft was shot down on November 12 by Azerbaijani forces have been buried with full military honors.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 07:11
A former Azerbaijani deputy defense minister, Mehman Salimov, has been arrested on corruption charges.