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Some 2,500 people in Turkmenistan’s Balkan region were mobilized this week to clean the streets, repaint buildings, and plant flowers along the sidewalks ahead of a “possible visit” by authoritarian ex-President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov.
Determined to stay put, Volodymyr survived the long Russian occupation of Velyka Oleksandrivka, a Kherson region town that was left in ruins when the invaders pulled out. But like other Ukrainians whose lives have been torn apart, he has lost a great deal, and there’s no way back to his past life.
The veteran correspondent of conflicts from Afghanistan, El Salvador, and Northern Ireland to Palestine and Uganda talks about Vladimir Putin's "drip, drip, drip" of bad behavior morphing into "cyclones and nightmares."
Three recent suicides in Bosnia-Herzegovina linked to cyberbullying are raising concerns and questions about whether the Balkan nation is taking the issue seriously.
Elite corruption -- especially concerning the region’s powerful ruling families -- has long been a risky topic for Central Asia’s independent media to broach, but there are other limits as well.