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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.
Thousands of Russian opposition supporters gathered in the rain in Moscow on August 10 for the fourth major rally in four weeks. Security was high as police cordoned off the area of the sanctioned demonstration and allowed people through in groups.
Prominent opposition leader Lyubov Sobol had a heated exchange with the head of Russia's Central Election Committee, as it rejected her appeal and upheld the decision to exclude her from local elections in September. There have been weeks of protests at the exclusion of Sobol and other opposition fi
As Moscow police respond to peaceful protests with increasing brutality, we filmed all sorts of people caught up in the violence -- protesters, passersby, and even a member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. (Note: Some people may find the violence in this video disturbing.)
A Russian physics professor spends his free time as a volunteer high in the trees of Yekaterinburg, saving animals that have gone astray.
Current Time correspondent Timur Olevsky spoke to Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol on August 3, shortly before she was detained by police as she left her political headquarters in Moscow.
Police violently detained peaceful protesters and apparent bystanders in Moscow, heavily clubbing some before dragging them away. Hundreds were detained on August 3, a week after mass detentions and demonstrations in Moscow.
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