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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."
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton has called for the United States and Belarus to engage in a dialogue about their common interests, despite “significant issues” in their bilateral relations.
Residents of Russian villages near the Gulf of Finland are fighting against the construction of a huge port for coal shipments, and the destruction of a nearby forest which has already begun.
A Ukrainian court ruled on August 28 to release Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky pending trial on charges of high treason. The head of Russia's state-run RIA Novosti's office in Ukraine, Vyshinsky was arrested in May 2018 amid accusations that the news agency was involved in an "information war."
A Russian couple threatened by prosecutors with losing their three children for bringing them to a protest rally in Moscow have called their prosecution "a lawless attempt to frighten all the activists."
Conservationists blamed poachers for destroying some of the remaining snow leopards in Russia's Siberian Altai Republic. Now, they are being paid to capture images of the rare species to help save them.
Moscow activists say a new road project next to a Soviet-era nuclear waste site could pose a radioactive risk.
A British research firm used machine learning to compile what it says is visual evidence of Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Moscow has denied involvement, but the researchers said they have identified Russian tanks deployed with separatists in defeating Ukraine's government
The derelict Usolyekhimprom chemical plant contains tanks of chlorine, mercury, and other deadly substances spread across hundreds of hectares in Russia's Irkutsk region. During a visit this July, the head of Russia's environmental safety agency warned that the site poses a potential environmental disaster on the scale of Chernobyl.
A community of Russian Baptists have been forced to hold their meetings outside after local authorities sealed off their prayer room -- saying it did not meet anti-terrorism regulations. The case follows a U.S. government report highlighting "repressive behavior" by Russia towards religious minorities.
Kyrgyz authorities have brought new charges against former President Almazbek Atambaev, who was arrested by police who raided his house last week.
Ukraine's Lake Sasyk was created artificially when Soviet engineers separated a lagoon from the Black Sea and flooded it with water from the Danube. Critics say it's an environmental disaster, but others say it has created a unique ecosystem.
Riot police detained dozens of people in Moscow following a protest on August 10 demanding that officials allow independent candidates on the ballot in upcoming municipal elections. Ahead of the sanctioned demonstration, police raided the office of opposition leader Lyubov Sobol and detained her.
Riot police detained dozens of people in central Moscow on August 10. Officers began clearing an area near the Russian presidential administration in the hours after a sanctioned protest, held to demand that officials allow independent candidates on the ballot in an upcoming municipal election.
Police in Moscow detained prominent opposition leader Lyubov Sobol on August 10 following a raid as she prepared to attend a sanctioned opposition rally. Sobol was one of several opposition candidates who have been barred from upcoming municipal elections, setting off a series of major protests.
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