March 2012
77 posts
4 tags
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
WatchDance-Off At Uzbekistan’s Norouz
What do you get when you put together a U.S. diplomat, a septuagenarian Central Asian dictator, and a giant public celebration of the New Year?
The answer, at least in the eyes of state broadcasters in Uzbekistan, is great television…[read more]
2 tags
4 tags
4 tags
WatchAs millions of people all over the world celebrate Norouz, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda asked its audience to share hopes, wishes — and some graphic designs — in honor of the Persian New Year…[read more]
5 tags
WatchGirls, alcohol, drinks, freedom…Iranians go to Armenia for ‘Spring Break.’
6 tags
6 tags
3 tags
6 tags
6 tags
WatchNorouz video by @RadioAzadi’s Sayedjan Sabawoon: People across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East are celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, which marks the coming of spring. In Kabul, Afghans gathered at a fair full of music, rides, and food, while young men dressed in green, the traditional spring color, to try to kiss a holy flagpole raised during each Norouz.
4 tags
5 tags
@GandharaRFE: Leaders of the minority Hindu community in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province complain that young girls in the area are being abducted and then forced to convert to Islam and married off to Muslim men…[read more]
3 tags
3 tags
WatchMoscow Court Upholds Pussy Riot Detentions
Video by @SvobodaRadio
Moscow City Court has upheld a lower-court decision to keep two members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot in pretrial detention until at least April 24. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested last month after staging a noisy protest at Christ the Savior Cathedral near the Kremlin against the continued rule...
2 tags
3 tags
8 tags
4 tags
5 tags
WatchPlanning your next ski vacation? Feeling adventurous? Don’t let a little unrest get in the way of your rest and relaxation. Turns out Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran (and soon Chechnya) offer offbeat getaways for those not afraid of a little risk while on the piste.[see the photos in larger size on our website]
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
Watch@AzadiRadio: In Afghanistan ambiguously defined “moral crimes” or “bad character” can mean jail sentences for women. Radio Azadi’s Sayedjan Sabawoon visited Kabul’s only detention facility for women and spoke to the inmates about the charges that brought them there.
5 tags
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
WatchFollow @SvobodaRadio for more photos & video from today’s protests in Moscow.
3 tags
WatchCross-Border Shopping Chaos: Azerbaijanis Flock To Iran Border For Norouz Shopping
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
6 tags
6 tags
RFE/RL Correspondent in Azerbaijan Targeted in Blackmail Campaign
Disturbing threats have been made against @khadija0576. Read Khadija Ismailova’s response to blackmailing on her Facebook page.
Ismailova has won numerous awards for her investigative reports into official corruption in Azerbaijan, including the finances and assets of President Ilham Aliyev and his family members. She...
1 tag
Jawed Faisal, spokesman for Kandahar governor tells @Mashaalradio: ”A motorcycle bomb exploded near the border with Pakistan which killed two children, a woman and a civilian. Ten more people have been injured.”
2 tags
Topless Iranian Women 'Say No To Political Islam'
This video of topless Europe-based Iranian women is making the rounds. They say in the video that their nudity “is a ‘no’ to political Islam.” The video is indeed provocative. But it’s unclear how the video or “purchas[ing] a copy of the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar” would actually “go towards supporting women’s rights and free...
4 tags
4 tags
Ordinary Iranians tell @RadioFarda_ what they think about their country’s nuclear program.
Amid talk of possible Israeli military strikes and more tough international sanctions, Iranians inside and outside the country have gotten in touch with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda via phone and e-mail to give their views on their country’s controversial nuclear program. Here’s a sample.
...
4 tags
News announcer on North Korean state TV reads a congratulatory message by Kim Jong Un to Vladimir Putin:
“Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, I offer my congratulations to you upon your election as president of the Russian Federation.”
“I wish you achievements in your responsible work for building a powerful Russia, expressing belief that the traditional bilateral relations of...
4 tags
Ron Synovitz interviews Czech Foreign Minister Karel Swarzenberg on the Belarus Boycott of the EU-Eastern Partnership Prague meeting on Monday, March 5.
Swarzenberg tells RFE/RL: “Well, they were invited to the meeting — the Visegrad Four with the Eastern Partnership neighbors because basically [Belarus is] one of the Eastern Partnership neighbors. But they declined to come. They...
4 tags
2 tags
“#Russiaelections: Aleksandr, a 48-year-old production manager, said it was key...”
3 tags
1 tag
Watch@SvobodaRadio: Eduard Limonov, the head of the Other Russia opposition coalition, was detained by police in #Moscow during a protest against the March 4 election.
Read: Moscow Police Crack Down On Protests; Opposition Leaders Detained.
Follow RFE/RL’s Russian Service, Radio Svoboda on Twitter: @SvobodaRadio for the latest news from Russia in Russian.
3 tags
3 tags
Election Observers Claim Fraud, Intimidation in...
@Balmforthtom reports: It doesn’t get much more blatant than a group of men and women stuffing a ballot box live on camera. But that is exactly what happened in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Daghestan thanks to web cameras positioned in polling stations across the country that were streamed online during presidential elections on March 4.
As word spread via a YouTube video and...
