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| Features  A Game No More In Pakistani Pashtun Village After a suicide bombing at the start of the year killed more than 100 people playing and watching a volleyball game in Shah Hassan Khel, a tiny village in northwestern Pakistan, residents appear more emboldened than ever to resist the Taliban. More  Conservationists Wage A Different Fight In Iraq, Afghanistan As instability and conflict continue to plague Iraq and Afghanistan, a small and often forgotten contingent of conservationists continues their work on the ground. Their goal is to safeguard threatened natural resources, and to broaden people's associations in the process. More  A Tajik Peace Recipe For Kyrgyzstan? If the Kyrgyz interim government is looking for an immediate example of how to get the mending process going, it need not look any farther than its southern neighbor, Tajikistan. In 1997, following the end of a five-year civil war, Tajikistan faced a similar test. More  Top U.S. Human Rights Diplomat: 'Democracy Takes Time' Following Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip last week to Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, RFE/RL’s Washington correspondent Heather Maher asked Michael Posner, the top U.S. diplomat for human rights and democracy, for an assessment of what Clinton accomplished and of the rights situation throughout the region as a whole. More  Serbs Honor Srebrenica Victims With Shoe Memorial July 11 is the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serb paramilitaries executed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys toward the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In an effort at reconciliation in Belgrade, some Serbian activists are preparing their own special memorial to the victims. More  Srebrenica Massacre Remembered On 15th Anniversary Tens of thousands of people attended a memorial ceremony on July 11 marking the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serb paramilitaries executed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys toward the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More  Moldovan Leader: Court Ruling Against 'Soviet Occupation' Political Moldovan acting President Mihai Ghimpu says a high-court decision to annul his decree marking a "Day of Soviet Occupation" was "political." More  Kyrgyz Officials Resign To Run In Vote Two deputy chairmen of Kyrgyzstan's interim government have announced their resignations so they can campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections. More  Kyrgyz Protesters Block Highway Dozens of women have blocked Kyrgyzstan's Osh-Bishkek highway demanding the immediate release ofrelatives who were jailed last month in connection with the country's deadlyethnic unrest More  Tajik Official Denies Ties To Company A Tajik government official who also is the son-in-law of President Emomali Rahmon has denied having any links to a private firm that collects tolls on a major road in Tajikistan More The Week In Facebook RFE/RL presents a Facebook-style summary of last week's events. More  Let The Spy Games Begin! Why was Russia so eager to resolve the spy scandal so quickly and amicably? Much of the commentary has focused on the fact that a critical mass of the Kremlin elite sees a lot of value in improved relations with the United States and did not want to damage the reset. But is there more to it than that? More  Former Armenian Foreign Minister Takes Party Back, Calls For Radical Change U.S.-born Raffi Hovannisian, who served in 1991-92 as Armenia's first post-Soviet foreign minister, has been elected chairman of the ruling board of the opposition Zharangutiun (Heritage) party he founded in 2002. More  The Missing Dimension Of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Policy The Pakistani military’s scattershot security operations over the last eight years have not produced results because they have not been backed by a serious political strategy of development projects in the cleared districts. More |
