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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.
Thirty years after Soviet troops retreated from Afghanistan, veterans of that conflict can now be found on the front lines of eastern Ukraine.
A notorious slum in Azerbaijan's capital is being demolished, but some remaining residents are digging in, saying the government compensation won't buy them a new home. Dubbed "Shanghai" by locals, the area in Baku consists of illegal homes built dangerously close to rail tracks.
The number of children in the village of Shapy, in the Smolensk region of western Russia, was dwindling in the mid-2000s with the local school about to close. That's when three teachers decided to adopt five children. Then others got involved and now 70 adopted children live in the village.
Kyrgyz state TV has been criticized for promoting domestic violence and bride kidnapping. A high-profile drama series shows a young woman forced to marry against her will but later falling in love with her kidnapper.
Protesters have taken to the streets of several Russian cities in solidarity with an activist who had been refused permission to visit her sick daughter in the hospital until the girl was in a critical state.
Kyiv-based artist Alevtina Kakhidze draws on her mother's experience of war in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting some paranormal support from a coven of Moscow witches looking to cash in on his popularity.
Tomsk's beloved puppeteer, Vladimir Zakharov, built and ran his own theater in the Siberian city after switching from robotics to puppetry in the 1990s. He died tragically in early February while trying to save his puppets after his workshop caught fire.
In Krasny Sulin in Russia's Rostov region, an amateur theater company set up by the founder of the town's ironworks is still performing, almost a decade after the plant was shut down and broken up for scrap.
Female lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan plan to introduce a bill to outlaw sexual harassment.
A local Tajik celebrity has been fined for throwing a birthday party that authorities say breached the law regulating private gatherings.
Sergei Amelchenko braves snow, ice, and cold to bring clean drinking water to remote villages in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region.
Plans to create a mega landfill site a thousand kilometers from Moscow might relieve the Russian capital's garbage burden, but local people have staged angry protests.
Nurse Sagilya Nigmatullina walks 48 kilometers a week so that she can tend to patients in the remote village of Pervomayka, in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk. She earns just $150 a month but says the walk is good for her and that she's never thought of quitting.
A 28-year-old Belarusian escort who said she had evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election appears to have rowed back from her claims, in her first interview since being released from detention in Moscow. Anastasia Vashukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka, gained global notoriety and spent nearly a year in a Thai prison after saying she had recordings of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska discussing the election on his yacht in 2016.
Residents in the Russian town of Sibay say they are suffering respiratory problems from clouds of sulfur dioxide that are billowing from an old copper quarry.
Kara and Wei Hung, a couple living in North Dakota, want their adopted daughter, Audrey Aida, to understand the country where she was born. So the whole family moved to Bishkek to soak up Kyrgyz culture for half a year.
Ukraine says it will ensure children in major regional hospitals receive an education from September 2019. Some 2,000 children are currently educated in hospitals, but one group, which runs a "School For Superheroes" in a Kyiv hospital, says 10,000 hospitalized children need schooling.
A debate about the prevalence of bullying in Kazakhstan's schools has been ignited by a video that showed students being viciously attacked in the city of Turkestan.
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