Current Time is the Russian-language TV and digital network run by RFE/RL.
While familiar with Soviet-era T-72 tanks, Ukrainian forces are keen to take newly acquired Leopard 2 tanks into battle against Russian invaders. Crews are undergoing accelerated training in Poland, mastering the advanced targeting systems, speed, and maneuverability of the German-made Leopards.
A court in western Belarus has sentenced a man to two years in prison for insulting Belarusian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
The former president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Rene Fasel, has obtained Russian citizenship.
The city of Chasiv Yar in Ukraine's Donetsk region is just a few kilometers from the frontline city of Bakhmut. While Ukrainian troops are battling to retain control of a critical road linking the two cities, residents of Chasiv Yar are preparing for evacuation or war.
A South Korean court has allowed entrance into the country to two of five Russian men stranded at an airport near Seoul, according to South Korean media reports.
Current Time reporter Borys Sachalko was with a Ukrainian frontline unit as reports came in of Russian troops advancing toward it. Using an armored personnel carrier, a rocket launcher, and small arms, the Ukrainians held the line.
A new exhibition of anti-war posters in St. Petersburg by the veteran Russian artist and activist Yelena Osipova has been closed the day after it opened after police confiscated all the works. Speaking to RFE/RL, she said her protests against Russia's invasion of Ukraine would continue.
A Russian restaurateur with terminal cancer is dedicating what remains of her life to feeding pensioners and poor families in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. Irina Guzova runs a "social canteen" where about 40 people come each day to eat for free.
The death toll in a gas explosion in a residential building in Russia's western Tula region has risen to eight.
A mobile application created by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has been introduced in Kyrgyzstan to help girls track their menstrual cycles. The Kyrgyz version of the Oky app was developed after focus groups showed that menstruation was a taboo topic in many Kyrgyz families.
The prosecutor at the high-profile murder trial of Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Krai region whose arrest in 2020 caused months-long protests in the region, has asked a Moscow court to sentence the politician to 23 years in prison.
An RFE/RL reporter was interviewing a Ukrainian soldier in Bakhmut when a Russian bomb hit a neighboring house. His dramatic footage captures what happened next: frantic battlefield first aid to save a man's life.
Lithuanian actor Viaceslavas Mickevicius has helped bring warmth and kindness to Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Together with a group of volunteers, he helps produce stoves out of old car rims. The stoves help provide heating for those in need in Ukraine.
Estonian Ambassador Margus Laidre has left Moscow as requested by Russia's Foreign Ministry, Russian media reports said on February 7.
A prosecutor has asked a court in the Siberian city of Barnaul to convict and sentence journalist Maria Ponomarenko to nine years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces with "fake" social media posts about the war in Ukraine.
Women who have lost their partners in battle against Russian invaders say the word "widow" is too painful to accept. Coming together in a Facebook group, they offer the mutual support and understanding they say can only come from someone going through the same kind of grief.
Buda Munkhoyev and Vladimir Popov moved from the Siberian region of Buryatia to the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, to avoid mobilization and the war in Ukraine. In Kyrgyzstan, they started making videos about local life and culture there, notching up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
Russia and Ukraine have announced an exchange of prisoners and the return of the bodies of two foreign volunteers who were involved in humanitarian work in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
A hospital in the city of Balaklia in Ukraine's Kharkiv region has reopened after state and international funds were used to repair and reequip it. Medical staff say the hospital was shelled by Russian forces.
Parents with sick children asking in vain for Nurofen are an increasingly common sight in Russia, where pharmacies are turning customers away. Pharmacists say they no longer have the medicines they usually stock. Sanctions over Russia's unprovoked war on Ukraine are being blamed.
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