Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Central Asia

Broadcast live from Uzbekistan, Hayes reports on the impact of the U.S. war on terrorism on Uzbekistan, its  corrupt politics under President Islam Karymov, and interviews with former Taliban soldiers and the family of the legendary terrorist Juma Namangani.

MPR - Uzbekistan
 

Russia and the United States
Since September 11
 

A commentary on the diplomatic revolution of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that has brought him into a military partnership against radical Islam from Chechnya to Afghanistan.

MPR - Russia


Retrospective on Russia
and the Balkans in the 1990s

Looking back on the ten years since the end of Soviet communism, Hayes analyzes the two pivotal dramas in post-communist Europe – Russia’s experiment with democracy and the wars of the ex-Yugoslavia.