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A Ukrainian woman who spent years running a kindergarten has turned her passion for rapping into a new career.
A Chechen man helps Russians locate and repair their family graves in Grozny's war-scarred and neglected Christian cemetery.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv helped create Eva.Stories, the viral Instagram project that brought a Holocaust victim's diary to social media. But filming amid the Ukrainian presidential election campaign in March presented some challenges.
Belarusian authorities have released from custody an Iranian man who has converted to Orthodox Christianity and is wanted by Tehran for alleged murder.
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police for a second night over a city proposal to build a new Russian Orthodox church on the site of a popular park in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
An American charity worker who's worked for nearly 20 years helping orphans in Kazakhstan has been deported from the country. Victoria Charbonneau was expelled after she made a mistake in a permanent residency application.
Saratov, in central Russia, is considered the cradle of the Russian gas industry. But despite the city's wealth in resources, some locals still live in barracks built more than 70 years by German prisoners as temporary housing. Ceilings are supported by props, and sewage flows through the streets.
For several years, Aleksandr Gorbunov has been anonymously entertaining millions with his biting commentary on life in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Now, the StalinGulag blogger believes the authorities are losing their sense of humor with him.
The Pamir Mountains of northern Tajikistan are sometimes known as "the roof of the world." Isolated by the rugged terrain, the Pamiri people who live there have preserved some of the Zoroastrian traditions that preceded the advent of Islam.
Dozens of people have been detained by police recently as protests have grown across Kazakhstan. One man tried a more novel approach, to no avail.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, numerous cities and streets have been renamed, and statues have been destroyed to forget the past. But many Russians still have nostalgia for some of the most ruthless leaders.
It's estimated that tens of thousands of people have left Crimea for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since the 2014 annexation of the peninsula by Russia.
Police in St. Petersburg broke up a May Day opposition rally and detained dozens of people chanting slogans critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A crumbling wooden house in Russia's Saratov region was due to be demolished -- and with it, a set of unique murals by members of the Old Believers sect. But a visiting student from St. Petersburg decided to do everything she could to save it.
The Russian Orthodox Church has been building numerous places of worship in recent years, but some residents have objected to plans to place them in previously public spaces.
Kazakh activists received jail terms and fines for posting a banner calling for fair presidential elections on the sidelines of the Almaty marathon. Amnesty International is calling the detainees prisoners of conscience.
Anna Kondratyeva, an environmental activist in the Russian city of Perm, is trying to reduce her household's waste to nearly zero. With careful shopping habits, recycling, and a home composting system, she and her husband are close to reaching that goal.
A resident of Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, has persuaded the city authorities to give him land for a rehabilitation center for rescued wild animals. With the help of volunteers, he saves porcupines, raccoons, foxes, and other animals, and then releases them back them into the wild.
A rare genetic disorder called CLN2 causes children to lose the ability to walk, see, and speak, with most not living beyond their teens. Five-year-old Nastya, from Kamenka in Russia, is one of an estimated 1,500 worldwide suffering from it.
A small town in Tartarstan has struggled after losing two major sources of employment before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. Many residents have moved out of the place once called Tat Vegas.
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