Current Time is the Russian-language TV and digital network run by RFE/RL.
After five years of conflict in eastern Ukraine, the port of Mariupol is struggling to survive. With the loss of coal exports and Russia choking access to the Sea of Azov, the port's maritime traffic has been cut in half. But Mariupol hopes Chinese investment can revive its sinking fortunes.
In southern Kyrgyzstan, entire regions live off illegal coal mining. The work is dangerous. Six miners died in an accident in October. But locals say there is no other work for the region's men.
A Tbilisi court will try 37 people who were detained while protesting at Georgia’s parliament on charges of disobeying police and for hooliganism, their lawyer, Georgi Oniani, has said.
Millions of Russians were glued to a YouTube platform that was notorious for outrageous viral videos. Then hackers revealed that it was being secretly financed by the Kremlin. This story is part of a documentary series, InterNYET, by Current Time that explores the history of the Russian web.
Ten years ago, a little-known Russian lawyer working for a Western financial firm died in custody in Moscow. Sergei Magnitsky's name is now enshrined in human rights laws in the United States and around the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin is still fuming.
When a flier's overweight cat was refused by a Russian airline, he hatched what he thought would be a purr-fect plan using a feline double.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General Ruslan Ryaboshapka says the prosecutor who led investigations into a local natural-gas company where Joe Biden’s son served on the board will be fired.
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Ruslan Ryaboshapka has confirmed that the prosecutor who led investigations into Burisma will be fired. Speaking to Current Time, he said prosecutor Konstyantyn Kulyk had failed to attend an exam that all employees of the prosecutor's office had been ordered to pass in order to keep their jobs.
The sister of a convicted Belarusian murderer has told RFE/RL of her heartbreak after the country's Supreme Court upheld Viktar Paulau's death sentence for the killing of two elderly women. Paulau is one of three men sentenced to death this year in Belarus, which is the only European country still using capital punishment.
A Moscow police officer who authorities say was assaulted by an activist has said the suspect "does not deserve imprisonment."
A Russian court has handed lengthy prison terms to six men from Ukraine’s Crimea region, five of whom are Crimean Tatars, for being members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group.
There are calls for a probe into the management of St. Petersburg State University after a prominent professor and Napoleon expert reportedly confessed to killing a former student.
A man believed to be a prominent Russian historian has been pulled out of a river in St. Petersburg with a backpack containing the severed body parts of a young woman and has been charged with murder.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said online commentators should be tracked down and killed for assaults on honor.
The Kremlin says it will not investigate statements by Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, that advocated killing, imprisoning, and intimidating those who assault the "honor” of other users on the Internet.
Alisher Bazhorov and his brother Yavlon both work in cafes. While Alisher runs his own catering business in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, Javlon remains at home in Uzbekistan.
In Russia's remote Altai region, people are heading to the mountains in thick snow to gather riches that literally grow on trees: pine nuts. Russia is the world's largest supplier of pine nuts. For locals, it's a rare chance to make money -- but the work is hard, cold, and dangerous.
A Russian man charged with assaulting a police officer during an unsanctioned rally has been remanded in pretrial custody after failing to win an appeal of his arrest.
A family of eight lives in a rickety house just meters from a landfill in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. In these adverse conditions, mother Zhazgul Raimbek Kyzy is working to make sure her kids have the opportunities to study that she never had. (Current Time)
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told Current Time TV that Russia was the biggest obstacle to the latest efforts aimed at defusing the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Linkevicius noted violations of the cease-fire linked to troop withdrawals agreed by Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists, and said Russia was an "active participant" in the conflict.
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