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A number of protesters were detained by police at a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin on May 5 in Moscow, part of a nationwide protest action organized by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
They don't use contraceptives and they don't attend universities. The Evangelical Christian Holy Zionists are a Ukrainian religious community founded in the 1930s.
Thousands of people threw paper airplanes in central Moscow to protest against efforts by the Russian government to block the Telegram messaging app.
Serj Tankian, System of a Down's lead singer, is widely popular in Armenia. He's been supporting the protests that brought about the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian. Tankian spoke with Current Time TV about the dramatic events on April 23 from his home in Los Angeles.
Former Soviet chemical-weapons engineer Vladimir Uglyov, who helped develop Novichok, discusses the poison used in the attack in England on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
Protests continued in Yerevan on April 20 against former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's move into his new role as prime minister. Speaking to Current Time TV, opposition lawmaker and protest leader Nikol Pashinian said that the protests are entirely peaceful.
The lower house of the Belarusian parliament has approved in its first reading draft amendments to the country’s media law that would tighten control over online news websites and social-media networks.
A Russian government agency wants Russians studying abroad to come home.
Activists say police have forcefully dispersed protesters who were blocking a road to a controversial garbage dump near the town of Volokolamsk, and briefly detained at least 10 of them.
A dawn trek through the snow, helping out at the post office, paying an elderly neighbor's bills, and delivering food -- it's all part of a day's work for Anatoly Kartashov. The 59-year-old plumber in Russia's Smolensk Oblast spends his spare moments looking out for everyone in his community.
Filip Vogel and Petr Javurek spent 10 months traveling around the world in one of the most joked-about cars from Soviet times.
Thousands of people demonstrated in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on March 27 to demand answers and accountability after a fire at a shopping mall killed 64 people, including many children. The father of one victim addressed the crowd, describing the last phone conversation he had with his daughter.
About 1,000 people have protested again in Volokolamsk, some 100 kilometers west of Moscow, demanding the closure of a landfill that has been leaking toxic gas that harmed dozens of children this week.
A journalist with RFE/RL says he was groped and accosted more than a decade ago by Russian lawmaker and perennial presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an allegation that could add fuel to scattered calls among Russians for a serious examination of abuse allegations against lawmakers and other officials.
In Russia, women are forbidden by law from holding 456 different professions, such as miner, firefighter, or captain of a ship. Svetlana Medvedeva received her qualifications to become a commercial captain -- and when a company turned her away, she decided to fight the law in court.
An angry crowd pelted a Russian regional governor with snowballs outside a hospital after dozens of children fell ill. Residents believe the illness is linked to a local landfill, which is known to be leaking dangerous gas.
Officials and others in Russia have all denied any Kremlin role in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, but the theories presented vary.
Angry residents scuffled with government officials in a town near Moscow where dozens of children were brought to hospital after apparently breathing toxic gas leaked from a landfill.
Russia's presidential election on March 18 gave Vladimir Putin a fourth term as president with more than 76 percent of the vote, according to the Central Election Commission. But the polls in many districts were marred by irregularities, including cases of apparent ballot-box stuffing recorded on vi
The Russian scientist who originally helped develop the nerve agent believed to have been used in the poisoning of a Russian double agent in Britain said other countries could have also produced test samples of the substance.
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