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Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko visited the newly liberated town of Balaklia in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region. He met a man who said he'd been electrocuted by Russian interrogators and a mother who said her son was shot dead by Russian forces the day before their retreat.
Russia's Supreme Court has banned the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), officially recognizing it as a terrorist organization.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office has denied a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk that Russian teachers in territories liberated from Russian occupying troops had been detained.
Russians on the street say they are deeply skeptical about their army's sudden retreat in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, where they left tanks, armored vehicles and artillery behind, fleeing advancing defenders over the past week.
A local councilor from St. Petersburg who called on Vladimir Putin to resign says he's been overwhelmed by the level of support. Dmitry Palyuga, of St. Petersburg's Smolny municipal council, co-authored a petition calling on the Russian president to step down that was sent to Russia's State Duma.
A court in Moscow has confiscated six apartments in the Russian capital belonging to Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Russian artillery litters the fields in areas of the Kharkiv region that Ukrainian troops have taken back in the last few days. Ukrainian soldiers have posted videos of themselves raising flags on buildings and say they have taken back some 20 towns and villages since September 8.
The Russian car industry is in crisis after the country's invasion of Ukraine prompted new sanctions and an exodus of Western car companies and capital. But in the western Russian city of Tolyatti, home to Lada manufacturer AvtoVaz, Russians still love their Soviet-era cars.
In an attempt to solidify Russian control, Moscow-installed authorities are reportedly threatening and bribing families in the occupied parts of Ukraine to get them to send their children to pro-Russia schools.
The excavated ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple in Kyrgyzstan are set to go on public display. The clay-brick walls of the monastery are more than 1,000 years old and stood along what was then the Silk Road trade route between Asia and Europe.
Ukraine's counteroffensive has shown some early success by liberating 20 towns in the country's embattled east. Footage of Ukrainian soldiers being greeted by emotional locals has flooded social media sites. The counteroffensive may be changing the balance of power in the region.
Yuriy Napora sings while his dad, Nazar, plays the piano on the streets of Lviv in western Ukraine. The 8-year-old came up with the idea to raise money for the Ukrainian war effort, and his father quickly taught himself the piano so that he could accompany him. So far, they've raised over $5,000.
Hotel-occupancy rates in in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, have plummeted this year according to statistics provided by Russian tour operators. Some Russian tourists do continue to travel there but many have been deterred amid explosions and other attacks on the peninsula.
Yevgenia Albats, the chief editor of The New Times magazine,has left Russia amid the ongoing crackdown on independent media in the country.
Before the war, there were some 500 pottery factories in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk. Now, there are around 10. The owner of one, Volodymyr Kyryk, is defying both Russian shelling and calls by his own government to evacuate.
A representative of the Moscow-installed military administration in the occupied parts of Ukraine's Kherson region says a referendum on joining Russia has been postponed as Ukrainian armed forces continue military operations aimed at regaining control over the area.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky says further measures are needed to restrict the flow of Russian citizens into the European Union.
A Russian billionaire of Armenian descent has decided to renounce his Russian citizenship and move to the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Supreme Court of Belarus has labeled a group called BYPOL, which unites former law enforcement officers who support opposition politicians, as a terrorist organization.
Current Time's Borys Sachalko joined a Ukrainian crew in a Krab self-propelled howitzer. The four-man team used to operate a Soviet-era Msta-S howitzer and they say the new Polish-built Krab is faster, easier to operate, and more accurate.
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