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The Russian Orthodox Church has been building numerous places of worship in recent years, but some residents have objected to plans to place them in previously public spaces.
Kazakh activists received jail terms and fines for posting a banner calling for fair presidential elections on the sidelines of the Almaty marathon. Amnesty International is calling the detainees prisoners of conscience.
Anna Kondratyeva, an environmental activist in the Russian city of Perm, is trying to reduce her household's waste to nearly zero. With careful shopping habits, recycling, and a home composting system, she and her husband are close to reaching that goal.
A resident of Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, has persuaded the city authorities to give him land for a rehabilitation center for rescued wild animals. With the help of volunteers, he saves porcupines, raccoons, foxes, and other animals, and then releases them back them into the wild.
A rare genetic disorder called CLN2 causes children to lose the ability to walk, see, and speak, with most not living beyond their teens. Five-year-old Nastya, from Kamenka in Russia, is one of an estimated 1,500 worldwide suffering from it.
A small town in Tartarstan has struggled after losing two major sources of employment before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. Many residents have moved out of the place once called Tat Vegas.
Russian police detained 11 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists taking part in an annual Day of Silence protest in St. Petersburg on April 17.
The traditional Kyrgyz sport of kok-boru, in which horsemen fight to grab a dead goat, is popular and prestigious, and can be lucrative for top riders. But the game can also bring devastating injuries to the players, and deadly ones to their horses.
Russia’s Investigative Committee says two suspected members of the extremist Islamic State group have been “liquidated” in a security operation in central Russia.
Belarus is the last country in Europe to have the death penalty. Since 1991, about 300 death sentences have been carried out in the country. The condemned prisoners are shot in the head. The body is not given to the family and the place of burial remains a state secret.
Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov, who spent nearly 20 months under house arrest, showed up at a theater performance of a play he directed on April 9 in Moscow after he was released the previous day.
In Turkmenistan, a witness filmed city workers throwing dogs into a garbage truck. In Kyrgyzstan, gunmen were seen shooting strays in broad daylight near a playground. Across Central Asia, animal rights activists are pushing for laws banning cruelty to animals -- and they're making progress.
An extraordinary nonagenarian from Ukraine extols the virtues of yoga at any age.
A woman in Georgia has received threats of rape and murder after publishing online videos providing sex education to children.
Vadim Cheldiyev abandoned a career as an opera singer at the prestigious Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg to return to his home town in the Caucasus and help the poor.
Construction workers in the Belarusian city of Brest have unearthed a World War II-era mass grave thought to contain the remains of over a thousand murdered Jews from the city's ghetto. The building works have now stopped and the remains are being exhumed.
In blind soccer, players compete in a fast-paced game guided by the sounds of a rattling ball, shouts, and taps on the goalposts. In Belarus, where the sport is known as intuitive football, a national team is gradually gaining strength. Olga Abramchik of Current Time directed "The Coach," a document
Once a restricted military zone, the town of Baltiysk on Russia's Vistula Spit is under threat from the elements and tourism.
In the western Ukrainian town of Sernyky, more than two-thirds of the inhabitants share the same surname, Polyukovych. It could be cause for confusion, particularly in the upcoming elections, but locals say they've got everything figured out.
Eighty-two-year-old Yekaterina Dzalayeva has been delivering the mail for half a century in Russia's North Ossetia region. But there is one letter that she's still waiting for -- one from her long-lost brother.
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