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A Belarus activist has cut his own throat during a court hearing after being warned that if he didn't plead guilty to participating in mass protest, his family and neighbors would face prosecution.
Russian opposition politician and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov has been detained by police, the state-run TASS news agency reported.
When the authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, made a speech defending the forced diversion to Minsk of a Ryanair passenger flight, he made several demonstrably false claims. These included a story about a threat to a Belarusian nuclear power station, which was more than 100km away
Who is Sofia Sapega, the woman detained along with Belarusian blogger and political activist Raman Pratasevich after their Ryanair passenger jet was forced to land in Minsk? A video has appeared showing a purported confession from her that is believed to have been coerced.
An adviser to exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya says that she or any of her colleagues could have been in the same situation as activist Raman Pratasevich. He was detained after his flight was forced to land in Minsk by the Belarusian authorities.
The father of independent journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich told Current Time TV on May 25 said that he has no information about his son's whereabouts.
In an interview with Current Time on May 24, Russian aviation expert Vadim Lukashevich spoke about how Minsk could have forced the plane to land and about the consequences Belarus could face if airlines decide not to fly over the country.
A Belarusian journalist has been detained by police after the commercial passenger aircraft in which he was traveling from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Minsk due to a purported bomb threat. Raman Pratasevich was taken away by police shortly after his Ryanair flight landed.
The city of Krasnoyarsk is considered to have some of the most polluted air, not just in Russia, but on Earth. For several weeks each year, the city announces an environmental alert they call "Black Sky."
An 83-year-old Russian street artist's murals of people killed during the 1930s have been vandalized, and the authorities have rejected his proposals for an official monument. He wants the names of Stalin's victims to be publicly honored.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijani authorities guilty of torturing blogger Aleksandr Lapshin and trying to kill him in a Baku prison.
A Belarusian man faces two years of forced labor after being accused of insulting a policeman in an online chat room, while a 19-year-old arrested for putting an opposition flag in his student dorm window could now go to prison for seven years on extremism charges.
City authorities have refused to approve a public exhibition marking the centenary of the late Russian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov.
A snow leopard blinded by a shotgun, a fox that lost a paw in an attack by a jackal, a golden eagle hanging from a tree with its claws bound: These animals and others have all found sanctuary in the home of a golden-hearted veterinarian in Kyrgyzstan.
In the Siberian city of Kiselyovsk, locals live within a stone's throw of gaping open-pit coal mines. The operations within the city limits are technically forbidden, but residents say clever legal language has allowed the mining companies to keep digging close to their homes.
A Moscow court has found three young pro-democracy activists guilty of vandalism for splashing paint on a booth at the entrance to the Prosecutor-General's Office last year to protest against a crackdown on other activists.
A court in Moscow has handed parole-like sentences to three young pro-democracy activists for splashing paint on a booth at the entrance to the Prosecutor-General's Office last year to protest against a crackdown on activists.
Fighting in Kyrgyz-Tajik border areas has died down after deadly clashes in late April, but residents of the Tajik region of Vorukh say tensions remain high. They're set apart from the rest of their country, surrounded by Kyrgyz territory, and some fear losing their freedom of movement.
Opponents of Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka can face arrest simply for displaying the red-and-white colors of the opposition, even on socks. The longtime authoritarian leader is doubling down on fear to silence his opponents.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions a women's prison in the Latvian capital, Riga, and a farm were among the unlikely venues for a Russian documentary film festival. ArtDocFest is held in Moscow every year, but amid growing repression and intimidation began holding events in Riga in 2014.
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