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WEBRFE/RL has more than 700 full-time journalists and 1,300 freelancers reporting the news in 27 languages in 23 countries. We operate where a free press is banned by the government or not fully ...
Disturbing Footage Emerges Of 'Taliban' Stoning In Afghanistan
WEBNov 2, 2015 · RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan has obtained video footage from an eyewitness that appears to show the brutal stoning last week of a 19-year-old Afghan woman in the central province of Ghor. The ...
Before The Killings: Rare Photographs Of Russia's Last Royal Family
WEBJul 17, 2018 · 4 Anna Vyrubova (right) wading at the beach with Grand Duchesses Tatyana and Olga. After the family was murdered, Anna, a close friend of the royal family, was able to flee Soviet Russia with six ...
Explainer: What Is The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty?
WEBSep 25, 2013 · The UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) has the ambitious aim of responding to international concern that the $70 billion a year trade in conventional weapons leaves a trail of atrocities in its wake. The ...
'Terrible Vengeance': The History Of Turkish Atrocities Against ...
WEBApr 23, 2021 · Up to 1.2 million Armenians were killed in World War I-era atrocities in the Ottoman Empire. What happened in Turkey starting in 1915 and why Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to recognize ...
Russia Proposes Major Military Reorganization, Conscription …
WEBDec 23, 2022 · The expanded Russian forces will include 695,000 contract soldiers, Shoigu said, 521,000 of whom should be in service by the end of 2023. Shoigu also proposed a major reorganization of military ...
2008 In Review: Top 10 News Stories Of The Year - Radio Free …
WEBDec 31, 2008 · Here are their choices for the Top 10 news stories of 2008. 10. Radovan Karadzic Extradited To The Hague. He was barely recognizable when the world first glimpsed Bosnian Serb wartime leader ...
The Protests That Brought The Soviet Union To Its Knees
WEBAug 27, 2021 · 1 Thousands of workers rallied on Minsk's Lenin Square in April 1991. The protesters were unhappy with the increased cost of consumer goods and the Communist Party's control of the republic. 2 On ...
Gorbachev's Legacy Examined, 25 Years After His Rise To Power
WEBMar 11, 2010 · As Medvedev explains, this outcome was the furthest thing from anybody's mind when Gorbachev first rose to power 25 years ago. "Nobody, including Gorbachev himself, imagined the scope of changes ...
World War I Anniversary: Five Historians, Two Questions
WEBJuly 28, 2014 10:59 GMT. By Dragan Stavljanin. PHOTO GALLERY: On July 28, 1914, Austro-Hungarian troops fired the first shots during the invasion of Serbia that marked the start of World War I ...
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