Liubov Bagatska is a Ukrainian journalist who joined Current Time as an engagement editor in 2017. He previously worked in RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service as a part of the Schemes investigative project.

Nino Tarkhnishvili has worked in the Tbilisi bureau of RFE/RL's Georgian Service since 2009. Her work focuses on health, human rights, education, minorities, and other social issues.

Oleksiy Prodayvoda is a correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. Prior to joining RFE/RL, he worked for some of the most important media ...

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A few weeks before the Sri Lankan president fled the country amid growing protests triggered by its debt-laden economy’s default and financial crisis, a top Kyrgyz official issued a warning about the ...

New investment in Russia through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) fell to zero in the first half of 2022, while Chinese outlays in Pakistan dropped by 56 percent during the same period. These ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are at the bottom of the global gender gap index for 2022, dragged down by the lack of opportunities for women in the conservative, male-dominated societies. The World ...

RFE/RL's Radio Azadi is one of the most popular and trusted media outlets in Afghanistan. Nearly half of the country's adult audience accesses Azadi's reporting on a weekly basis.

Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned a top Afghan Embassy official to protest violence against Iranian diplomatic posts that were targeted by protesters angered over social media videos. State media ...

Shamalgah was once a bustling agricultural village that housed hundreds of residents of the Bala Bulk district of Afghanistan's western Farah Province. But their pastoral existence was shattered when ...

After not holding in-person meetings with foreign leaders for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in a flurry of face-to-face diplomacy on the sidelines of ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Scores of U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and crew members who fled the Taliban takeover arrived in Abu Dhabi, evacuated from Tajikistan after months of uncertainty about ...