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A Russian boy who learned to love hotels during frequent visits to doctors far away, has become a hotelier in his remote hometown, thanks to his mother.
The Moscow-based rights group, Memorial, is to publish a book naming more than 6,000 executed Polish prisoners buried in 1940 in the village of Mednoye, near the Russian city of Tver. The killings were part of a mass execution of nearly 22,000 Polish officers ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
The political party of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has changed its name in a bid to rebrand itself ahead of key parliamentary elections.
For the Lyuli people of Central Asia, women are the traditional breadwinners, trying to feed their families. Some are bucking centuries-old traditions.
Katerina Tikhonova, who is said to be the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, defended her dissertation at Moscow State University on May 24. Cameras were not present when she spoke, but a Current Time journalist filmed her speaking on his mobile phone.
Top figures in Ukraine's new Orthodox Church are meeting in a synod amid an apparent power struggle between Patriarch Filaret, an early vocal supporter of the independent Ukrainian church, and the new church's elected head, Metropolitan Epifaniy.
A Ukrainian woman who spent years running a kindergarten has turned her passion for rapping into a new career.
A Chechen man helps Russians locate and repair their family graves in Grozny's war-scarred and neglected Christian cemetery.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv helped create Eva.Stories, the viral Instagram project that brought a Holocaust victim's diary to social media. But filming amid the Ukrainian presidential election campaign in March presented some challenges.
Belarusian authorities have released from custody an Iranian man who has converted to Orthodox Christianity and is wanted by Tehran for alleged murder.
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police for a second night over a city proposal to build a new Russian Orthodox church on the site of a popular park in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
An American charity worker who's worked for nearly 20 years helping orphans in Kazakhstan has been deported from the country. Victoria Charbonneau was expelled after she made a mistake in a permanent residency application.
Saratov, in central Russia, is considered the cradle of the Russian gas industry. But despite the city's wealth in resources, some locals still live in barracks built more than 70 years by German prisoners as temporary housing. Ceilings are supported by props, and sewage flows through the streets.
For several years, Aleksandr Gorbunov has been anonymously entertaining millions with his biting commentary on life in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Now, the StalinGulag blogger believes the authorities are losing their sense of humor with him.
The Pamir Mountains of northern Tajikistan are sometimes known as "the roof of the world." Isolated by the rugged terrain, the Pamiri people who live there have preserved some of the Zoroastrian traditions that preceded the advent of Islam.
Dozens of people have been detained by police recently as protests have grown across Kazakhstan. One man tried a more novel approach, to no avail.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, numerous cities and streets have been renamed, and statues have been destroyed to forget the past. But many Russians still have nostalgia for some of the most ruthless leaders.
It's estimated that tens of thousands of people have left Crimea for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since the 2014 annexation of the peninsula by Russia.
Police in St. Petersburg broke up a May Day opposition rally and detained dozens of people chanting slogans critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A crumbling wooden house in Russia's Saratov region was due to be demolished -- and with it, a set of unique murals by members of the Old Believers sect. But a visiting student from St. Petersburg decided to do everything she could to save it.
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