Current Time is the Russian-language TV and digital network run by RFE/RL.
More Russian military vehicles were being moved to Crimea on February 20 amid fears of a major Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On February 19, Current Time correspondents caught up with passengers on buses that were part of a convoy of evacuees from Donetsk and its environs to Taganrog in Russia’s Rostov region.
Evacuation orders and a dramatic jump in cease-fire violations blamed on Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine is raising concerns that Moscow is trying provoke Ukraine and draw it into a war.
Video recorded by Current Time on February 18 shows Russian military equipment and personnel in several areas of the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.
The director of a documentary about jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny reveals how he shot his award-winning film.
Amid constant reports about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, some Kyiv residents are preparing for the worst. Water-storage tanks are being filled, people are taking first aid courses, and civil defense instructors are teaching people where to hide.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny attended the start of a new trial on February 15 on fraud charges widely seen as politically motivated. The session took place inside Correctional Colony No. 2 in the town of Pokrov, some 100 kilometers east of Moscow.
A 79-year-old resident of Mariupol in Ukraine's south, Valentyna Konstantynovska, says she wants to be ready to defend her family in case of a Russian invasion. She was among a group of civilians, including children, who were shown weapons and instructed how to use them.
A young Belarusian cross-country skier who was barred from competition after sports officials accused her of supporting the opposition has left the country.
An orangutan at the city zoo received more votes than a polar bear resembling the symbol of Russia’s ruling political party, prompting authorities in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk to halt a poll to choose the city’s animal mascot.
Deadly shootouts broke out along a disputed section of the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on January 27 -- the latest of several violent clashes in recent years. At least two people died and many more were wounded.
Crowds of Chechens massed in central Grozny to burn pictures of a human rights activist's family, whom Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has threatened with death. The treatment of Abubakar Yangulbayev has caused an outcry in Russia.
A Russian lawmaker from the North Caucasus region of Chechnya has vowed to "cut off the heads" of all members of the family of Abubakar Yangulbayev, a former lawyer for the Committee Against Torture group.
Medical staff in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv say the regional children's hospital there is 90 percent full, with over 100 children admitted, including babies. Doctors at the facility say the omicron variant appears to be less grave than previous strains of COVID-19.
Natalya Lyutykova fled her native Crimea after Russia seized the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014. Now living near Kyiv's airport, she fears her family is in Russia's crosshairs once again and is preparing for a possible attack by stocking up on canned food.
Details of 48 million COVID-19 vaccination certificates are reportedly being sold on the dark web for $100,000. Journalists identified a vulnerability with an online governmental portal containing vaccination data in 2021 and reported it to Russia's Communications Ministry.
Two Belarusians who have been sheltering at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk since September 2020 say the Swedish government has adopted "delaying tactics" to avoid helping them.
In an interview with Current Time television, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that city authorities are tasked to ensure that the Ukrainian capital's critical infrastructure is in good working order, and bomb shelters are ready to accommodate people in case of a possible Russian attack.
Russia has added jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny and several of his allies to its list of "terrorists and extremists," as the government continues its assault on the country's civil society.
Latvia’s defense minister says no country in the West wants a conflict with Russia, but that Ukraine has a right to defend itself as fellow NATO Baltic states send assistance to Kyiv.
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