After The Bloom

Georgia is marking the fifth anniversary of its Rose Revolution, the peaceful public rebellion that sought a clean break from a corrupt and undemocratic past. But the events of 2003 have lost much of their promise to creeping authoritarianism and a ruinous war with Russia. Can Tbilisi preserve its 'rose' legacy? More

Ukraine Marks Dark Days In Its History

Ukrainians are marking the 75th anniversary of a tragedy that killed millions of their countrymen in the early 1930s. More

Russia OKs German Transit For Afghan Mission

Germany has became the first NATO nation to win Russian permission to use the country's railways to transit military goods bound for Afghanistan. The NATO-Russia relationship has been badly disrupted in the aftermath of the conflict in Georgia, but both sides say the stability of Afghanistan remains a shared concern. Nonetheless, NATO's difficulties in forging a single transit corridor for allies suggest Moscow prefers to deal with individual allies than with the alliance as a whole. More

A True Accounting Of Bosnia's Dead

Mirsad Tokaca's "Bosnian Book of the Dead" tallies the number of those killed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But he's faced harsh criticism for his final count, dramatically lower than the usual estimates. More

Pessimistic Predictions For Turkmen Elections

Next month's elections in Turkmenistan will not conform to international standards of fairness or usher in a new era of reform, the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation has heard at a congressional hearing. More

Serbia, Kosovo At Boiling Point

Tempers in Serbia and Kosovo are once again at the boiling point over the configuration of Kosovo's next international law-and-order mission. The dispute comes as Belgrade finds itself increasingly at odds with nearly all of its Balkan neighbors. More

Could Georgia Really Get Sochi Games Moved?

Officials on Georgia's National Olympic Committee -- supported by more than a dozen Georgian Olympic champions -- have said that the 2014 Winter Olympics should be withdrawn from the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. More

Low Prices, Low Demand Don't Yet Mean Deflation

Recessions are bad enough. Add serious deflation and you can end up in an economic depression, although not necessarily one as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s. Does that mean the world faces a round of deflation? RFE/RL asked William Niskanen, who served as acting chairman of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and is now chairman of the Cato Institute, a private policy research center in Washington. More

Identifying Chechnya's Dead

The Kremlin and its handpicked leader take credit for what they say is a return to peacetime life in Chechnya. But despite a reconstruction boom in Grozny, Russia has yet to come to terms with the legacy of two devastating wars, and there has been no systematic identification of the dead. More

Transitions Peaceful, If Not Always Well-Organized

Stephen Hess, a senior fellow emeritus of governance studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., has participated in every U.S. presidential transition since the Eisenhower White House in the 1950s. For the current presidential election season, Hess has written "What Do We Do Now?"-- a guide to what happens when one commander in chief leaves the White House and a new one comes in. More