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After being diagnosed with brain cancer, Kyiv-based Russian journalist and documentary filmmaker Leonid Kanfer is determined to make the most of each day he has left.
Bella, a 21-year-old Nigerian, says she was released from sexual slavery in Moscow after an NGO helped police locate her. She says she entered Russia with promises of work and a Fan ID for the World Cup -- an alternative to a visa that was arranged by human traffickers.
Russian LGBT activists are demanding police in Yekaterinburg investigate homophobic assaults and threats.
Protests have been under way for nearly two weeks in the Russian republic of Ingushetia over a land-swap deal with neighboring Chechnya. Opponents say the agreement cedes land with deep significance to the Ingush people, and are demanding that the republic's leader resign.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople agreed on October 11 to recognize the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, making waves in Moscow. In one Ukrainian village, a schism has already been playing out with a fight over the only local church.
The U.S. special envoy for Ukraine has said that elections planned by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are illegitimate and urged Moscow not to endorse them.
Georgia has begun to phase in its ban on plastic bags.
After decades as a professional driver, Galina Yakoleva now delivers much more than food and clothes to lonely pensioners in St. Petersburg. She brings kindness.
Oyub Titiyev, a dogged Russian activist who is in jail and on trial in his native Chechnya on what he says is a fabricated drug-possession charge, says he was not tortured in prison only because of his age.
A ghost town in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia is being slowly swallowed by nature.
Chechen human rights activist Oyub Titiyev accused police of planting drugs on him before he was arrested for the possession of an illegal substance.
An 80-year-old woman in Russia's Lipetsk Region shares the bounty of her local river with neighbors, after first catching the fish with her bare hands.
Crowds in Russia's Daghestan region were on their feet since the early morning of October 7 to watch a televised duel in which native son Khabib Nurmagomedov fought for a world-champion title in mixed martial arts.
Thousands of people protested in Magas, Ingushetia, against an agreement for an exchange of territory between Ingushetia and Chechnya.
Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia after opposing Moscow's takeover of his Crimean homeland, says he is being forced to end his hunger strike after 144 days to avoid force-feeding.
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president announced the end to free gas, electricity, water, and salt -- winning applause and lavish praise from the rubber-stamp People's Assembly.
A laundromat for the homeless is facing opposition in Moscow.
Rallies organized by the Communist Party were held across Russia on September 22 to protest unpopular pension-reform proposals.
A Kazakh pensioner has spent 30 years building a medieval-style castle in the mountains near Almaty. He says it was his childhood dream.
Protesters tried to force their way into the parliament building in Kyiv, during a demonstration to ease rules on Ukrainian citizenship for foreigners who fought against Russia-backed separatists.
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