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When Orthodox priest Andriy Korobkov is not ministering to his small parish in western Ukraine, he's serving the community in a different way: by teaching kids martial arts.
Czech media have discovered that Russia’s state agency for managing property abroad is renting out apartments in Prague that belong to the Czech Republic – but which were supposed to be accommodation for diplomats.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is keeping up his annual tradition of celebrating International Women's Day by telling jokes about women.
A Russian lawmaker who heads a parliamentary committee on family and children affairs has called gays "sick" people who "must be cured."
Russian activists were arrested and fined for throwing flowers at a monument to Josef Stalin on Moscow's Red Square on March 5, the 66th anniversary of the Soviet dictator's death.
Several Jehovah's Witnesses in the Russian city of Surgut say they were beaten, suffocated, or shocked during interrogations by police about their group's activities. The charges come amid reports of a broader Russian crackdown on the U.S.-based religious group.
Some 500 people gathered on Moscow's Red Square to mark the 66th anniversary of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death.
Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kolchenko is serving a 10-year sentence in Russia on charges that human rights groups say are politically motivated. During a visit by an observation mission, Kolchenko described the time he's spent in an isolation cell, as well as the letters of support he's received.
Authorities in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula have released the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the region after briefly detaining him, a Russian lawyer says.
Opera singer Khachatur Badalyan was invited to perform at a festival in Kazan, Russia, but after his first appearance, the management dismissed him. Badalyan says the theater director in charge simply considered him too short.
Hundreds of people gathered on March 2 in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a protest rally. Demonstrators demanded the dismissal of the city council and the resignation of Mayor Nils Usakovs. The protest came after a corruption scandal involving bribes in the purchase of public transport for the city.
Azerbaijani anti-corruption blogger Mehman Huseynov was released from prison on March 2 after serving a two-year prison sentence in a case that sparked international outrage and critics said was politically motivated.
A 77-year-old Russian pensioner has found global fame after 30 million people saw our video of her skating across the ice of Lake Baikal in Siberia.
Laura Codruta Koevesi, Romania's former anticorruption chief, oversaw the prosecution of dozens of high-level officials. She's now the front-runner to become the EU's chief public prosecutor -- but Romania's ruling party is actively campaigning against her.
A choral reinterpretation of a Cold War ditty depicting a Russian nuclear attack on Washington has variously drawn wild cheers, contrition, and ridicule for its glib message amid mounting nuclear tensions between Russia and the West.
In February 1944, Soviet leaders started forcibly deporting nearly half a million people from the Caucasus region to Central Asia. Seventy-five years later, survivors who remain in Kazakhstan spoke to Current Time about the lasting trauma of being torn from their homes and families.
Yevgeny Kosovskikh provides free medical care to homeless people in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. After Current Time first aired a story about his work last year, donors came forward with money and supplies to keep his mobile practice running.
The legal onslaught by prosecutors against Jehovah's Witnesses continues across Russia. In Kirov, two members of the Jehovah's Witnesses have been placed under house arrest after being released from jail to care for sick relatives. Russia's Supreme Court banned the organization in April 2017.
A Russian flag appeared on scaffolding outside Salisbury’s cathedral, nearly a year after a nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy in the English city.
Protests against waste disposal sites in Russia have prompted a wave of police raids. Protesters say they're being targeted for raising legitimate environmental concerns.
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