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Hundreds of people have held a demonstration in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan region, to protest against what organizers described as the "lawlessness” of the authorities.
Ivan Mankovsky runs a homeless charity in the southeastern Russian town of Khabarovsk. He's converted old buses into shelters to help people get through the winter after their old shelter burned down.
An area of Russia known as the Siberian Switzerland is being torn apart by coal mining. The works threaten the future of the indigenous Shors people who live a hard, simple life.
A Belarusian man is creating a free digital index of the country's largest cemetery in the western city of Hrodna to help people track down their ancestors. He has previously helped Americans trace their ancestors' graves in Belarus and put them in touch with living relatives.
A court in Russian-controlled Crimea has charged all 24 captured Ukrainian sailors of illegally crossing Russia's maritime border.
Former Russian oil tycoon and Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky has alleged that Russians working for the Central African Republic played a "serious" role in the deaths of three Russian journalists.
Russian teenagers are posting photos of an anti-Putin slogan chalked on school blackboards, after video emerged of an angry teacher saying people would have been shot for such behavior in Soviet times.
Twenty years after democratic reformer Galina Starovoitova was assassinated, her sister says she does not believe that an infamous alleged crime kingpin who was implicated in the slaying was in fact behind it.
Police in Belarus made a boy apologize on video for slapping a statue of a policeman. When people responded by recording themselves kissing it, how would police react?
A Russian rom-com set during the construction of a bridge linking Crimea to Russia has been panned by critics and a box-office disappointment.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has published the identities of 206 men who it says served for a shadowy Russian mercenary group called Vagner, in conflicts including Ukraine and Syria. Gravestones in Tolyatti, western Russia, record when four of those men died -- but where and how?
A Ukrainian anticorruption activist has died of her wounds following an acid attack in July. She died six weeks after making an impassioned video from her hospital bed, in which she listed dozens of attacks on civic activists that police have failed to clear up.
There are few roads through the swampy tundra in western Siberia, so one resident is trying to build a tiny float plane that ordinary people can afford.
Karabash, in Russia's Ural Mountains, is home to a copper-smelting plant that belches toxic clouds and leaks arsenic and mercury. Some residents fear for their safety -- but leaving is not an easy option.
He clears garbage wearing a turquoise stocking on his head, has 16,000 followers, and calls himself Cleanerman.
Ukrainian physics teacher Pavel Viktor became an unexpected celebrity after his online lectures went viral. Days after he was interviewed by Current Time, Viktor was assaulte on his way from work. Now hospitalized, he's already thinking of the work he has to do when he gets back to the classroom.
Hundreds of people have gathered in Moscow to read out the names of people killed in Josef Stalin's 1930s repressions. This year, city authorities withdrew permission for the annual event, but later relented after a public outcry.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attended an October 28 military parade in the Czech capital, Prague, to commemorate the 1918 declaration of Czechoslovak independence.
Pavel Viktor, a science teacher in Odesa, Ukraine, started posting his lectures on YouTube for absent students. He never expected the videos to gain millions of views beyond his classroom.
A Ukrainian businessman faces trial for treason amid allegations he was tasked with setting up a pro-Kremlin political party. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has released covert recordings which they say incriminate Timofiy Nahornyy -- who denies the charges.
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