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U.S. political scientist Francis Fukuyama says Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered for his "unparalleled" contribution to human freedom. Gorbachev died on August 30 at the age of 91.
A Belarusian sprinter who appealed for international help to avoid being forced home prematurely from the Tokyo Olympic Games has obtained citizenship from Poland, the country where she defected with her husband last year as she fled Japan.
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, has asked the Investigative Committee to check a report by the newspaper Fontanka about the recruitment of inmates in penitentiaries to fight in the war launched against Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Svetlana Valeryevna Timofeyeva, whose personal data fully coincides with those of a woman detained in Albania on espionage charges.
On-the-street interviews in Moscow reveal that Russians are extremely uneasy discussing the war in Ukraine. But some will still admit they don't support the six-month-old unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, while others continue to back the war with a thumbs up.
Ukrainian singer Tina Karol has bought an apartment for the family of Yehor Kravtsov, a 9-year-old boy who kept a diary during the siege of Mariupol by Russian troops. The singer's manager contacted the family and offered to help after seeing a Current Time video about the boy.
Yesenia had a starring role in Ukraine's independence celebrations in 2021, striding through 1,000 years of the country's history in a video filmed on Kyiv's main Khreschatyk Street. One year later, RFE/RL spoke to the 11-year-old about her experiences of war and evacuation.
A young Chechen activist who went missing in September 2020 amid reports he was kidnapped by people close to the authorities of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya and later shown on videos being tortured, has been killed, a lawyer for a human rights group in Russia says.
Yevgeny Roizman, a former mayor of Yekaterinburg and outspoken Kremlin critic, was detained on charges of “discrediting the armed forces,” a charge that Russian authorities have used broadly to silence critics of the Ukraine invasion.
Canada has imposed sanctions on 62 more Russian citizens and one defense company over Moscow’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Vladyslav Petrenko is one of some 1,500 Ukrainian airline pilots who have been grounded since Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago. He says the military has no use for them because Ukraine has hundreds of military pilots but not enough military planes for them to fly.
Saddling up is something most Ukrainian soldier amputees never imagined doing. But horseback sessions, known as hippotherapy -- long in practice for wounded fighters -- has proven a success. The calming rides reduce stress and build confidence for the wounded soldiers.
A Russian man who covered his store with the names of Ukrainian cities that have been bombed by Russia could face up to five years in prison. Dmitry Skurikhin faces two criminal cases of "discrediting the Russian Army" for painting his store in the village of Russko-Vysotskoye near St. Petersburg.
A regional head of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service has been found dead at his home in central Ukraine, the Prosecutor-General's Office said on August 21.
We asked people on the streets of the Ukrainian capital how they felt about the decision to stop teaching the Russian language in Kyiv's schools from September 1.
Ukrainian emergency services held a nuclear disaster drill in the country's Zaporizhzhya region on August 17 after repeated shelling at the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhya site in early March.
Yana and her mother, Natalya Stepanenko, both lost lower limbs in a Russian rocket attack on the Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine's Donetsk region on April 8. Now, both are learning to walk on prostheses at a rehabilitation center in the United States.
A court in Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimea has sentenced a local DJ to 10 days in jail for playing a video clip of a song by Ukrainian rapper Yarmak.
People in the Latvian capital, Riga, are reacting to the decision of the country's lawmakers to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Some 150 wives of Islamic State militants and their children were recently returned to Tajikistan from a camp in Syria, but their current whereabouts are unknown. Their families are worried that the women have been imprisoned.
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