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Residents of the Russian city of Kemerovo laid flowers and stuffed toys at a memorial to the victims of a massive shopping mall fire on this date in 2018. A blaze engulfed the Zimnyaya Vishnya mall on March 25 last year, killing 60 people, including 37 children.
Twelve-year-old Tasya wrote to Vladimir Putin in December, asking the president to help her overworked mother. After RFE/RL reported on her story, strangers sent money and gifts to the family. And that is when Tasya's mother says their real problems began.
Police in the Kazakh capital, Astana, have arrested about 20 people who protested on March 21 against the decision to rename the city "Nursultan" after Kazakhstan's former president. Nursultan Nazarbaev unexpectedly resigned on March 19 after nearly 30 years in power.
A U.S.-made transport plane, supplied to the Soviet Union during World War II, went down in the Siberian tundra in 1947 and remained there for nearly 70 years. Now it's being restored in Krasnoyarsk by technicians and historians who want to share its dramatic wartime and postwar legacy.
Hundreds were detained as three raids in two days targeted migrant workers from Central Asia in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg.
Russian prison authorities posted video of people happily dancing in the snow at a facility in Krasnoturinsk, 1,400 kilometers east of Moscow, four days after former inmates held a news conference alleging abuse there.
When Orthodox priest Andriy Korobkov is not ministering to his small parish in western Ukraine, he's serving the community in a different way: by teaching kids martial arts.
Czech media have discovered that Russia’s state agency for managing property abroad is renting out apartments in Prague that belong to the Czech Republic – but which were supposed to be accommodation for diplomats.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is keeping up his annual tradition of celebrating International Women's Day by telling jokes about women.
A Russian lawmaker who heads a parliamentary committee on family and children affairs has called gays "sick" people who "must be cured."
Russian activists were arrested and fined for throwing flowers at a monument to Josef Stalin on Moscow's Red Square on March 5, the 66th anniversary of the Soviet dictator's death.
Several Jehovah's Witnesses in the Russian city of Surgut say they were beaten, suffocated, or shocked during interrogations by police about their group's activities. The charges come amid reports of a broader Russian crackdown on the U.S.-based religious group.
Some 500 people gathered on Moscow's Red Square to mark the 66th anniversary of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death.
Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kolchenko is serving a 10-year sentence in Russia on charges that human rights groups say are politically motivated. During a visit by an observation mission, Kolchenko described the time he's spent in an isolation cell, as well as the letters of support he's received.
Authorities in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula have released the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the region after briefly detaining him, a Russian lawyer says.
Opera singer Khachatur Badalyan was invited to perform at a festival in Kazan, Russia, but after his first appearance, the management dismissed him. Badalyan says the theater director in charge simply considered him too short.
Hundreds of people gathered on March 2 in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a protest rally. Demonstrators demanded the dismissal of the city council and the resignation of Mayor Nils Usakovs. The protest came after a corruption scandal involving bribes in the purchase of public transport for the city.
Azerbaijani anti-corruption blogger Mehman Huseynov was released from prison on March 2 after serving a two-year prison sentence in a case that sparked international outrage and critics said was politically motivated.
A 77-year-old Russian pensioner has found global fame after 30 million people saw our video of her skating across the ice of Lake Baikal in Siberia.
Laura Codruta Koevesi, Romania's former anticorruption chief, oversaw the prosecution of dozens of high-level officials. She's now the front-runner to become the EU's chief public prosecutor -- but Romania's ruling party is actively campaigning against her.
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