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In the southern Russian Daghestani village of Kvankhidatl, people extract salt using a unique ancient method. They claim they produce the purest and most delicious salt in the world.
Protesters in Belarus are responding to police brutality by singing. The tunes they choose tell a story about the values the demonstrators stand for.
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on Russia to back "the will of the Belarusian people" and said that it was "a pity" that the Kremlin was on the side of the country's authoritarian president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya says the intimidation tactics of authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka are only hardening the resolve of the tens of thousands protesting against the contentious results from last month's election.
Hundreds of people in the Far Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk have taken to the streets for the 64th consecutive day to protest the arrest in July of the region’s popular former governor.
Dramatic video has emerged showing Belarusian security forces attacking a car with Russian plates in Minsk on August 11.
As Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny fights Novichok poisoning in a Berlin hospital, his teams are continuing their battle against election fraud in a series of municipal votes across Russia. Navalny was poisoned after campaigning in Novosibirsk, and his team there has also been attacked.
Speaking to Current Time in Prague on September 10, leading opposition official Paval Latushka commented on the ongoing protests in Belarus that erupted after Lukashenka won an August 9 election that was widely seen as rigged. (Current Time)
A leading Belarusian opposition official called on the European Union to live up to its commitment to support democracy and announce that it will stop recognizing the rule of strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka at the end of a three-month transition period.
A 44-year-old Belarusian truck driver died in the hospital of gunshot wounds, after being fired on by security forces in the western city of Brest. His daughter told us "there was blood everywhere." At least six people have been killed in a monthlong crackdown.
After weeks of protests, environmental activists in Russia's central Bashkortostan region have won a battle to protect Kushtau Hill from mining. The Bashkir Soda Company had planned to mine limestone from the site. But activists say the hill is a natural treasure and home to many endangered species.
Russian actor Mikhail Yefremov, an outspoken Kremlin critic, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for killing a person while driving under the influence of alcohol. Crowds of Yefremov's supporters gathered outside the Presnensky district court in Moscow September 8, as he was escorted inside.
For the first time in the 26-year rule of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, protests against him have been large-scale, nationwide, and enduring. But, after an unprecedented month of demonstrations, he still shows no signs of bowing to demands for his resignation.
Two attackers threw a glass jar with an unknown chemical liquid into an office housing the independent political coalition supported by opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Russia's third-largest city, Novosibirsk.
Minsk residents have rallied around a cafe in the Belarusian capital after its windows and doors were smashed by security forces during protests.
Berlin’s Charite hospital, where Aleksei Navalny is being treated, says the condition of the opposition politician "has improved."
The wife of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who is currently in a medically induced coma in Berlin after being diagnosed with poisoning, has slammed a leading Russian physician as being little more than a stooge for President Vladimir Putin.
He was a career diplomat who was once a foreign policy adviser to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, but he then became the first -- and only -- Belarusian ambassador to support protests against his boss. Now, Ihar Leshchenya is at his dacha near Minsk; hoping to evade arrest.
A 30-year-old Tajik lawyer has been questioned by security officers after he announced his intention to run for president in the October 11 election.
A Belarusian diplomat who resigned after he openly supported ongoing protests against official results of the August 9 presidential poll that handed victory to incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka says the uprising occurred for the simple reason that people are tired of having their votes "ignored."
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