Arslanbob is an ancient walnut forest on the slopes of the Tian Shan mountains in southern Kyrgyzstan. Every fall, the locals, mostly ethnic Uzbeks, harvest walnuts for sale at Central Asia’s biggest walnut market
An anti-government march took place in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, for a 45th Saturday in a row on October 12…Kosovo’s Central Election Commission has temporarily suspended the counting of expatriate votes in parliamentary elections after several election workers complained of health problems
Myroslava Keryk was born and raised in Ukraine, but now lives in Warsaw and is running in Poland’s parliamentary election on October 13 promising to represent the interests of all migrants, not just those from Ukraine. Although estimates vary, there are up to 2 million Ukrainians living and working in the country
Supporters of Kosovo’s Self-Determination party celebrated in Pristina after a snap parliamentary election on October 6 appeared to unseat the ruling party. The movement’s leader, Albin Kurti, said he plans to form a coalition with the party that came in second, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK)
Speaking at a government meeting last week, Ghaniev said hundreds of women in Ferghana had been reprimanded for wearing Islamic head scarves and a similar number of warnings had gone out to men wearing long beards
Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), which had dozens of observers at polling stations, also reported low turnout, especially among female voters
Afghans headed to the polls on September 28 to elect a new president, amid reports of attacks at polling stations. Some 72,000 security personnel were expected to secure polling centers across the country, which opened at 7 a.m. and were originally scheduled to close at 3 p.m., but the Independent Election Commission later extended voting by two hours until 5 p.m. More than 2,000 out of 7,000 polling stations will be closed due to the threat of militant violence
More than 3 million women are registered to vote in Afghanistan’s September 28 presidential election. But some women are expected to vote for their husband’s choice of candidate.Hundreds of university students in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, blocked roads in protest over the accidental death of a fellow student at Bahria University.Pakistani police fired tear gas and used batons against doctors protesting in the city of Peshawar
Young Afghans raised after the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001 are getting a first chance to vote in presidential elections taking place on September 28. An international footballer and a cyclist, both 18, told RFE/RL about their hopes for the election and for the future
contentious, fraud-marred presidential election in 2014 pushed Afghanistan to the brink of civil war before the United States brokered a power-sharing deal that made Ashraf Ghani president and his rival, Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive