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Russian police detained 11 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists taking part in an annual Day of Silence protest in St. Petersburg on April 17.
The traditional Kyrgyz sport of kok-boru, in which horsemen fight to grab a dead goat, is popular and prestigious, and can be lucrative for top riders. But the game can also bring devastating injuries to the players, and deadly ones to their horses.
Russia’s Investigative Committee says two suspected members of the extremist Islamic State group have been “liquidated” in a security operation in central Russia.
Belarus is the last country in Europe to have the death penalty. Since 1991, about 300 death sentences have been carried out in the country. The condemned prisoners are shot in the head. The body is not given to the family and the place of burial remains a state secret.
Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, who spent nearly 20 months under house arrest, showed up at a theater performance of a play he directed on April 9 in Moscow after he was released the previous day.
In Turkmenistan, a witness filmed city workers throwing dogs into a garbage truck. In Kyrgyzstan, gunmen were seen shooting strays in broad daylight near a playground. Across Central Asia, animal rights activists are pushing for laws banning cruelty to animals -- and they're making progress.
An extraordinary nonagenarian from Ukraine extols the virtues of yoga at any age.
A woman in Georgia has received threats of rape and murder after publishing online videos providing sex education to children.
Vadim Cheldiyev abandoned a career as an opera singer at the prestigious Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg to return to his home town in the Caucasus and help the poor.
Construction workers in the Belarusian city of Brest have unearthed a World War II-era mass grave thought to contain the remains of over a thousand murdered Jews from the city's ghetto. The building works have now stopped and the remains are being exhumed.
In blind soccer, players compete in a fast-paced game guided by the sounds of a rattling ball, shouts, and taps on the goalposts. In Belarus, where the sport is known as intuitive football, a national team is gradually gaining strength. Olga Abramchik of Current Time directed "The Coach," a document
Once a restricted military zone, the town of Baltiysk on Russia's Vistula Spit is under threat from the elements and tourism.
In the western Ukrainian town of Sernyky, more than two-thirds of the inhabitants share the same surname, Polyukovych. It could be cause for confusion, particularly in the upcoming elections, but locals say they've got everything figured out.
Eighty-two-year-old Yekaterina Dzalayeva has been delivering the mail for half a century in Russia's North Ossetia region. But there is one letter that she's still waiting for -- one from her long-lost brother.
Residents of the Russian city of Kemerovo laid flowers and stuffed toys at a memorial to the victims of a massive shopping mall fire on this date in 2018. A blaze engulfed the Zimnyaya Vishnya mall on March 25 last year, killing 60 people, including 37 children.
Twelve-year-old Tasya wrote to Vladimir Putin in December, asking the president to help her overworked mother. After RFE/RL reported on her story, strangers sent money and gifts to the family. And that is when Tasya's mother says their real problems began.
Police in the Kazakh capital, Astana, have arrested about 20 people who protested on March 21 against the decision to rename the city "Nursultan" after Kazakhstan's former president. Nursultan Nazarbaev unexpectedly resigned on March 19 after nearly 30 years in power.
A U.S.-made transport plane, supplied to the Soviet Union during World War II, went down in the Siberian tundra in 1947 and remained there for nearly 70 years. Now it's being restored in Krasnoyarsk by technicians and historians who want to share its dramatic wartime and postwar legacy.
Hundreds were detained as three raids in two days targeted migrant workers from Central Asia in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg.
Russian prison authorities posted video of people happily dancing in the snow at a facility in Krasnoturinsk, 1,400 kilometers east of Moscow, four days after former inmates held a news conference alleging abuse there.
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