Current Time is the Russian-language TV and digital network run by RFE/RL.
Vladimir Putin holds an annual session on national television in which citizens can call in and ask the president questions. Ahead of the event, Current Time TV asked Russians what they would like to ask Putin, while activists were holding demonstrations to address their concerns to the president.
Ford's joint venture in Russia, Ford Sollers, is closing three of its four factories in the country in response to a weakened local economy. As thousands of workers face unemployment, a few are protesting against what they say is an unfair severance package.
Apparently playing on a prominent media host's remarks likening those protesting plans to build a church in a Yekaterinburg park to demons, a road sign welcomes travelers to the "City of Demons."
The Russian Interior Ministry says nearly 1,600 people are taking part in a rally in Moscow in support of free media in Russia, which critics have described as "fake."
A bit of vandalism at the administrative border between two southern Russian republics prompts Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov to threaten violence over perceived insults.
Police detained hundreds of demonstrators who turned out for a march in Moscow on June 12 to maintain pressure on authorities following the release of Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter who was arrested on a drug charge supporters said was fabricated.
Moscow's garbage dumps are overflowing, but plans to transfer waste to Russia's provinces have infuriated local residents. Some Muscovites are taking the trash troubles into their own hands.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a decree pardoning 72-year-old, Russia-born Vyacheslav Vysotsky, a source in the Justice Ministry told Current Time.
In Georgia, members of a small Christian sect called the Dukhobors preserve the faith they brought with them from Russia in centuries past. Their forebears were persecuted and exiled for their unconventional beliefs and refusal to serve in the army.
A Kazakh man discovers a Stalin-era mass grave in his backyard.
A lawyer for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has disclosed some details of the corruption charges his client is facing in the high-profile case.
Francis Savinovskikh made headlines in Russia when the authorities took two foster children away, citing concerns that their upbringing was not "traditional." At the time, Savinovskikh had the name Yulia and didn't accept being a man.
Poorly paid Russian health-care workers are pushing for higher wages and forming local branches of a union promoted by anti-Kremlin activist Aleksei Navalny.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the Czech capital on June 4 to call for the resignation of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who is facing accusations of fraud and conflicts of interests.
For more than a millennium, the city of Bukhara, in what is now Uzbekistan, had been home to one of the biggest Jewish communities in Asia. But their numbers have dwindled after decades of Soviet rule.
After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Stas Borodin, 33, lost a good job in Moscow, his wife left him, and he was forced to return to his native Smolensk. He didn't give up, but instead started a new life and became a well-known DJ in the city.
Regional authorities say emergency rescue operations have been completed following a series massive blasts that devastated an explosives plant in central Russia, and investigators are seeking the cause of the accident.
Blasts at an explosives plant in central Russia have left at least 19 people injured and two have been reported missing, Russian news agencies reported, citing local health ministry officials.
A video of Kazakhs criticizing aspects of life in their country went viral and sparked a widespread debate ahead of June's presidential election.
Residents of a housing estate outside Moscow are cooking food on portable stoves after their energy provider switched off electricity citing nonpayment. Turns out the head of their homeowners association is running a huge bitcoin mine in the garage.
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