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Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya held campaign rallies in two Belarus towns on July 25 supported by three other candidates barred from running. (RFE/Current Time)
A protest in Khabarovsk on July 25 against the replacement of a popular governor by President Putin is the largest since their start 15 days ago. (Current Time)
An acid leak from an abandoned mine has turned a local river red, devastating local flora and marine life in Russia's Ural Mountains.
Russia has posted a draft instruction on how media who have been registered as "foreign agents" must identify that fact in published or broadcast materials.
Meet the three women striving to put an end to 26 years of rule by authoritarian Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka -- at great personal risk.
A wave of large protests in Russia's Far East shows no sign of letting up after nine continuous days of rallies and marches.
Mass rallies continue to rock Russia's Far East as the backlash against the arrest of a local governor rattles the Kremlin.
Kyrgyz authorities have warned people not to use an ancient Islamic practice of bloodletting known as Hijama to treat COVID-19.
The campaigns of three opposition figures involved in Belarus’s upcoming presidential election have issued a joint statement on cooperation.
Kyrgyzstan is facing a severe shortage of medical professionals, hospital beds, drugs, and equipment as coronavirus infections have shot up in recent weeks.
The international community has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to de-escalate tensions after deadly border clashes.
Russian police detained almost 150 people in Moscow protesting recently approved constitutional changes that could allow Putin to serve two more terms.
Thousands took to the streets across Belarus to protest after the authorities excluded opposition leader Viktar Babaryka from the August 9 presidential election
Running for president in Belarus is a dangerous business. Candidates in previous elections have been imprisoned and beaten up.
Dozens of activists gathered outside the Lefortovo prison in Moscow on July 13 to support former journalist Ivan Safronov.
A Russian prosecutor said the mysterious deaths of a group of hikers killed six decades ago in the Ural Mountains was due to hypothermia, disorientation, and an avalanche, and that the newly reopened investigation was now closed.
Hundreds marched through Khabarovsk amid a second day of protests in the Russian Far Eastern city over the arrest of a popular regional governor.
Desperate relatives are waiting in line for hours for an overwhelmed Kazakh morgue to release the bodies of their loved ones, raising questions about the country's COVID-19 data. Official statistics show hundreds of deaths related to COVID-19 and more than 1,000 dead from "pneumonia." But Chinese news reports about a form of pneumonia in Kazakhstan that is deadlier than the coronavirus have been dismissed by the Kazakh Health Ministry as "fake news."
A Siberian village, Tayezhnyy, was swamped with trash when Ilona Domracheva moved there. She didn't like what she saw and, in a short time, she mobilized the community to help clean up. She may have won a battle, but the war on waste goes on.
Police in Russia have searched the homes of coordinators of Open Russia opposition group, chief editor of independent MBKh Media online publication, and independent municipal candidates.
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