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Animal control officers in Turkmenistan have been assigned to catch and kill at least seven stray dogs every day. Dog owners say they sometimes take people's pets to reach their quota.

In a live discussion on August 4, we spoke with Nafisabonu Urinkhojaeva, a university student in Tajikistan, and Niginakhon Saida, a private university instructor from Uzbekistan, about the quality of higher education in their countries, competition for places at universities, and brain drain.

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

Russia is using a ferry to move military equipment across the Dnieper River and supply forces holding the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson, an examination of satellite imagery by Schemes shows.

Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom will post record revenue and profits in 2022 thanks to surging prices triggered by what Brussels has called Russian gas “blackmail.” But Moscow’s war on Ukraine is destroying Gazprom’s future in Europe, which has been its bread-and-butter market for decades.

More than five months into the Russian invasion, Ukraine is gearing up for a counteroffensive in the south. It could be the most consequential campaign to date.

Iran openly talks about making nuclear bombs; prison authorities deny inmates proper medical care; and another convict has his fingers amputated.

How Moscow is talking about Pelosi’s Taiwan trip; the BRI adapts to a debt crisis; Hungary’s warming views of China; and Georgia’s Eurasian outreach.

In an interview with RFE/RL's Georgian Service, Gerard Biard, the editor in chief of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, talks about the difficulties of creating satire in times of war and the huge risks that come with publication.

Ukrainian farmers wearing flak jackets have begun the 2022 harvest as parts of the world await grain from the “breadbasket” of Europe.