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Several reporters and bloggers have been detained in Tajikistan in recent weeks as the authoritarian government stepped up attacks on independent media. Local experts described the arrests as the government’s attempt to control public opinion and silence the last critical voices.
Members of Ukraine's territorial-defense volunteer units talk about their experiences of transitioning from civilian to military life. One, a plumber in peacetime, says he "took up arms to defend my children."
An Armenian film producer collapsed and died in a Yerevan courtroom where he was facing charges of inciting hatred, raising questions about why authorities ignored defense warnings about the 57-year-old's flagging health.
Amid the ruins of Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, hundreds of homes remain abandoned three months after the retreat of Russia forces. Yevhen Yelpitiforov looks after people's apartments, keeping their plants watered and their refrigerators clean. He also picks up broken glass -- for free.
Calling Moscow's February 24 invasion of Ukraine a war is a criminal offense in Russia. Yet Russian anti-war protester Vitaly Tsitsurov has for months been picketing Russia's war in Ukraine with a sign that reads "No *ar!" Vitaly's been detained and brutally beaten for his actions.
Russia's film industry is trying to fill cinemas with homegrown produce, as new U.S. films are no longer available amid international sanctions following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. But film fans are voting with their feet -- leaving cinemas empty.
Why did Ukraine’s State Investigative Bureau destroy secret documents pertaining to major criminal cases, including against leading political figures, hours before and after Russia’s invasion in February?
Russian forces struck a market and a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on July 5. Ukrainian officials said at least two people were killed and seven others were injured. (WARNING: Viewers may find the content of this video disturbing.)
The war in Ukraine reaches beyond the country's borders. Inside Russia, the war has divided society into those who oppose the war and those who support what the Kremlin's ''military operation.'' Parents have severed relationships with their children, husbands with wives, and sisters with brothers.
Former political prisoners in Belarus say they were denied medical care in jail, subjected to the constant glare of bright lights, and bombarded with speeches by authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Russian ice hockey goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov was taken by ambulance from the St. Petersburg military commissariat during the night of July 1-2 and hospitalized, Russian media reported.
Kyiv says about 2,000 orphans have been forcibly taken to Russia following its February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Moscow is introducing new laws that will fast-track Russian citizenship for Ukrainian children and ease adoption procedures for Russian families.
Chernihiv resident Valentyna believed in March that civilian areas should be relatively safe even in cities under fire by the Russians. She learned the opposite on March 16, while standing in line for bread. Artillery fire hit the crowd, badly injuring her and killing her husband and 13 others.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved a bill that would allow it to define any person who receives financial assistance from abroad as a "foreign agent," a change making it easier for the state to target its domestic critics.
The Belarusian KGB has added 23 people to its terrorists list, including the jailed husband of opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Syarhey Tsikhanouski, and RFE/RL consultant Ihar Losik.
He's the only paramedic in the village and he reaches his patients on horseback. Ziedbek Murzalimov works at a clinic in the town of Nooken in Kyrgyzstan's Jalal-Abad region, but in his spare time, he provides medical care for free in his remote home village of Kirov, 20 kilometers away.
Constitutional amendments initiated by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev will annul the current right of the Karakalpak region to seek independence.
"When they take a break, we get to work," says Ihor, referring to Russian artillery pounding targets in eastern Ukraine. Since war began, Ihor has reconnected nearly 20 kilometers of power lines that were cut by shelling. Before the next salvos come flying in, he'll be cycling to the next job.
Despite there being an exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant since the catastrophic 1986 disaster, people live in the area. On the first day of the war they found themselves facing a new danger, as Russian tanks rolled through their villages -- and opened fire.
The battle for Syevyerodonetsk has an uncanny echo of the fighting in Mariupol, with Ukrainian forces holding out in a huge industrial facility. But a former worker says the two plants are very different.
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