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A Belarusian activist has been handed a lengthy prison term for his participation in a wave of protests against the results of a presidential election in August 2020 that handed Alyaksandr Lukashenka a landslide victory, despite claims by opposition leaders that the vote was rigged.
Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, has blocked the website of Britain's The Telegraph daily as Moscow attempts to control the flow of information related to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A court in Belarus has sentenced opposition activist Lyudmila Ramanovich to 18 months in prison for a letter she sent to the Investigative Committee in early March protesting Belarus's involvement in Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Another former member of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has left Russia amid an ongoing crackdown against defunct organizations associated with the Kremlin critic that were labeled "extremist" last year.
NATO's secretary-general has warned that the war in Ukraine could go on for years and urged the supply of state-of-the-art weapons to Kyiv even if "costs are high," as Ukraine's allies sought to preempt any international "fatigue" nearly four months into Russia's unprovoked invasion.
Current Time reporters asked people across Russia how and when they think Russian President Vladimir Putin will leave office and what changes his departure might bring.
When a groom slapped his bride at an Uzbek wedding on June 6, it made global headlines. Uzbek women's rights campaigner Aqida Khanum told RFE/RL that the man, who works at a market, was acting within social norms within Uzbekistan, where women are "on the lowest rung in society."
The commander of the Admiral Makarov, a Russian frigate that has been firing on Ukraine, previously served in the Ukrainian Navy before switching sides after Russia seized Crimea in 2014. His cousin and former neighbors in his childhood village told us of their hurt and anger at what he's doing.
Two former members of the U.S. military who were reportedly fighting alongside Ukrainian armed forces in the war against Russia have gone missing in eastern Ukraine amid fears they have been captured by Russian troops.
Ukrainian authorities have asked the 15,000 residents of Lysychansk to evacuate immediately, but there is only one road out and many refuse to take it. Even with shells falling nearby, people insist they and their children will stay.
A Belarusian father and son have evaded 24/7 surveillance to flee their country after spending almost two years at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk, where they were living to avoid arrest after demonstrating against a presidential election widely seen as falsified.
Moscow police have detained dozens of journalists and activists after they were identified using a facial recognition system in the city's metro according to the OVD-Info group, which monitors the arrests of representatives of democratic institutions, rights defenders, and opposition politicians.
The Committee Against Torture (KPP), a prominent human rights group in Russia, has announced it has closed down operations after being labeled a foreign agent, the third time an iteration of the activist group has received the designation from authorities since 2015.
In Ukraine, a crowd gathers to get their monthly pension payments in cash amid the rumble of artillery nearby. These people used to travel to a neighboring town to get their money, but the road is now too dangerous. Instead, local officials travel to them under armed guard.
A Russian rocket attack hit a school in the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region on June 8, turning part of the building into a pile of rubble and shredding textbooks. The school was empty at the time of the attack. Current Time's Borys Sachalko visited the site.
"From abroad, we are seen as one big Putin," says Lyudmila, a Russian pensioner who is flying the Ukrainian flag from her window in Novosibirsk. The security forces sent someone to climb the building to snatch it, but she simply put another one in its place -- from the inside.
The director of a Russian college in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has quit after saying he would not punish or exclude students fined by the authorities for publicly objecting to the war in Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has changed the one-year parole-like sentence handed to opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, a close associate of jailed anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny, to real prison time saying she violated the terms of her punishment by leaving the country.
After weeks of searching, Lilia Borysovska discovered her brother was being held in a prison in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine. But she's relatively lucky. Many Ukrainians are still desperately searching for loved ones who have disappeared without a trace.
He points to what he says are entry and exit wounds where a bullet passed through his face. Mykola Kulychenko says a Russian soldier placed a gun to his mouth and tried to execute him, and says his two brothers were shot dead, with one falling on top of him.
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