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A court in the city of Kazan has sentenced a man to life in prison for an attack on a school in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan in May 2021 that left nine people -- including seven students -- dead and prompted a tightening of the country's gun laws.
A gay couple in the Russian city of Kazan has been detained for their romantic blog posts and charged with spreading LGBT propaganda. Arrested on April 5, Gela Gogishvili is facing a $2,500 fine and Haoyang Xu is awaiting deportation to China.
Russian student Varvara Zholiker found herself under police investigation after she posted a Ukrainian flag on social media. A teacher reported her to the police, and the family remains under official scrutiny. Zholiker, 11, and her mother are suing, accusing the police of false arrest.
Danylo Lytvynenko is eager to get back into battle on Ukraine's eastern front once he masters his new prosthetic leg. He's one of 12,000 war casualties treated at a specialist rehab center in Lviv, including 350 children. The faciltity uses high-tech machinery to make its own prosthetic devices.
Celebrities in Kyiv, a businessman in Kharkiv, an interior designer from Crimea...they're all studying Ukrainian amid a growth in interest in learning the language among the country's native Russian speakers.
Dissident Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who once promised to return to Moscow in a U.S.-made Abrams tank, was designated as a foreign agent on April 7 by the Russian Justice Ministry.
Ukrainian assault brigade sappers risk everything to clear the front line of mines laid by Russian forces -- and lay their own. As one sapper told Current Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda about a recent mission: "I thought I wasn't coming back."
Brutal fighting rages on the streets of Bakhmut as Russian forces continue their assault on the embattled city. At a "stabilization point," Ukrainian medics fight to save the lives of soldiers injured during fighting. They say they treat up to a hundred patients a day, including wounded civilians.
A woman has been detained by Russian police as a suspect in the assassination of a prominent Russian war blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe, while the Kremlin has alleged that the Ukrainian special services may have been involved in the planning of the bombing, which injured 32 people.
Russian human rights organizations Memorial and OVD-Info have called on the EU to prevent the extradition to Russia of a Russian man detained in Belarus after his daughter's anti-war drawing brought attention to his social media posts against the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
More than 20 Ukrainian doctors and nurses have found work at Riga’s First Hospital in Latvia. After fleeing Russia's invasion at home, they have helped Latvia's health-care sector, despite language challenges. Latvia was facing a shortage of doctors and nurses until the Ukrainians arrived.
A self-exiled former speechwriter of Putin, Abbas Gallyamov, whose name appeared in Russia's online registry of wanted persons last week, is suspected of discrediting Russia's armed forces, a charge Russian authorities have been using to stifle any criticism of Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian artillery targets Russian armored guns at a range of 28 kilometers in the battle for Bakhmut. Using a captured self-propelled cannon, the crew is also trying to destroy Russian command posts. They've seen a slowdown in the frequency of attacks but intense fighting continues for the city.
A court in Ukraine has sentenced a Russian soldier to 12 years in prison on a charge of violating of the laws of war, the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office said on March 30.
A Russian man sentenced to two years in prison after his daughter's anti-war drawing brought attention to his social media posts against the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been detained in Belarus after escaping house arrest in Russia just before sentencing.
Before Russia's war in Ukraine, Olena Avilova's son, Andriy, worked in restaurants and cafes. He dreamed of opening a cafe of his own but died fighting in Kharkiv. Now his mother has brought his dream to life.
The new constitution that Uzbeks will vote on next month would give leader Shavkat Mirziyoev a path to remain in power until 2040, but the state machine is choosing to ignore those changes and highlight other ones.
Lyudmyla Subotina’s son Andriy was among the Ukrainian soldiers killed in the defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol last March. Two days before he died, he had married a fellow soldier who was taken prisoner by Russia. Subotina has been on a campaign get her widowed daughter-in-law freed.
The Save Ukraine Foundation has brought 17 Ukrainian children home who had been taken by Russian authorities to annexed Crimea. Their parents had been persuaded by occupying forces in the Kherson region to send their children to a summer camp in Crimea to escape the war.
Ukrainian soldiers have been honing their skills to shoot down Iranian-made drones with machine guns. Russian forces have been using the drones to launch attacks across Ukraine. The Ukrainian military says it is having success gunning down the drones, even as Russia continues to change tactics.
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