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A man on a march across Russia who says he wants "to topple Putin" has reportedly been seized by masked, armed men. Aleksandr Gabyshev left Yakutsk in Russia's Far East earlier this year to walk 8,000 km to Moscow.
Leonid was born in a small town in Russia's Far East, where his mother beat him for being gay. When he finished school, he left home and met Aleksandr, with whom he now campaigns for LGBT rights.
A former Russian National Guardsman could face a 6-year prison sentence for resisting arrest during a crackdown on a Moscow protest.
A Russian election observer was assaulted at a polling station after raising concerns about potential fraud during the September 8 vote for governor of St. Petersburg.
A new school in a village in central Kyrgyzstan made up of shipping containers has caused a social media stir and has been linked to the resignation of the country's education minister.
Various claims of voting irregularities have emerged as Russia held local and regional elections that were seen as a serious test for the Kremlin.
Two Russian soccer players have been granted early release after serving less than half of their prison sentences for hooliganism over beatings they inflicted in Moscow last year.
Residents of Saratov in central Russia have joined forces on social media to try and identify the source of a stench they say hits the city at nighttime and weekends. They're blaming local industrial plants.
In the 1980s, a Soviet computer scientist headed for Moscow with U.S. software tapes hidden under his clothes. Three decades later, his colleagues gathered at a California dinner party to reminisce about how they built the first internet in the U.S.S.R. Their story is part of a new seven-part documentary series, InterNYET, by Current Time TV exploring the history of the Russian web.
A court in Kyiv has released Volodymyr Tsemakh, a suspect in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 five years ago, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said a prisoner swap with Ukraine is nearing completion.
A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been shown on video apologizing for the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. He says his acts of contrition have cost him jobs as a teacher in Russia.
The mother of a Russian blogger sentenced to five years in prison for extremism related to a social media posting has expressed shock at the punishment meted out to her son, suggesting it was meant to send a warning to Russia’s opposition.
A Moscow court on September 4 handed down a three-year prison sentence to a protester over charges of using violence against police during a Moscow rally in late July.
A Moscow court has refused another prosecutor's request to deprive a couple of their parental rights and take their children from them for bringing them to a protest rally.
Fifteen years ago, militants with ties to the insurgency in Chechnya stormed a school in Beslan, southern Russia, taking more than 1,200 children and adults hostage. For a brief moment, a mother and her young son were at the center of the crisis, as she volunteered to act as a messenger between the militants and Russian forces.
In a video shot at a protest rally in Moscow on August 31, protesters surrounded a correspondent for the state-owned Rossia 1 television channel, chanting "Propaganda" and "Stop lying."
Thousands of Russians marched in central Moscow as opposition activists defied authorities' warnings and pushed ahead with a protest focused on upcoming city council elections. The August 31 action was the latest in a series of confrontations between liberal activists and Moscow city authorities -- and the Kremlin. A leading opposition figure, Lyubov Sobol, speaking to journalists during the protest, said that repression will not work and also called on Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to resign.
Thousands of Russians defied authorities and marched in central Moscow, ignoring officials' warnings and pressing demands to let independent candidates run in upcoming city council elections.
Some of the teachers who survived the Beslan massacre are still working, and still haunted by the days in 2004 when 334 people were killed in their school.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton said he had a long and "fascinating" meeting with Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka who is hoping to open a "new chapter" in relations between his country and the United States. Bolton's August 29 visit to Minsk was the highest-level U.S. government trip to Belarus in two decades. Speaking to Current Time's Serge Kharytonau, Bolton said he discussed the issue of human rights with the Belarusian leader who has been in power for 25 years and is described as the "last dictator of Europe."
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