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Flooding in the Siberian region of Irkutsk has left over a dozen dead and and over a dozen missing, according to the Russian emergency services. Thousands have been evacuated from flood-hit areas and a state of emergency has been declared in the region.
Russian officials have raised the official number of dead from flooding in the southern Siberian region of Irkutsk to 18.
A Russian activist has compared care units in the country to gulags. Nyuta Federmesser, of the Vera Hospice Charity Fund, has visited psychiatric units and orphanages in 20 Russian regions and was so appalled that she says those hindering reform are advocating genocide.
This spring, a march in Bishkek marked International Women's Day by calling for equality for all -- including LGBT people. Members of the LGBT community say it marked a turning point in the fight for equal rights in Kyrgyzstan, but they describe ongoing battles with threats and job discrimination.
Russian-backed separatists from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region have released four Ukrainian citizens from captivity in Minsk. The freed men were transported from the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to the Belarusian capital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree suspending all direct flights between Russia and Georgia from July 8. The ban follows nights of protests in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, after a Russian lawmaker gave a speech from the speaker's chair of the Georgian parliament.
A Ukrainian rock star is moving back into politics. Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, frontman of the band Okean Elzy, has launched a new anti-corruption party called Holos (Voice) ahead of July's parliamentary elections. Vakarchuk was previously elected to parliament in 2007, but resigned after a year.
Czech anti-government protesters rallied at Prague's Letna plain on June 23 in the country's largest rally since the fall of communism in 1989. The organizers estimated the turnout to be 250,000. The protesters demand the resignation of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
Vladimir Putin holds an annual session on national television in which citizens can call in and ask the president questions. Ahead of the event, Current Time TV asked Russians what they would like to ask Putin, while activists were holding demonstrations to address their concerns to the president.
Ford's joint venture in Russia, Ford Sollers, is closing three of its four factories in the country in response to a weakened local economy. As thousands of workers face unemployment, a few are protesting against what they say is an unfair severance package.
Apparently playing on a prominent media host's remarks likening those protesting plans to build a church in a Yekaterinburg park to demons, a road sign welcomes travelers to the "City of Demons."
The Russian Interior Ministry says nearly 1,600 people are taking part in a rally in Moscow in support of free media in Russia, which critics have described as "fake."
A bit of vandalism at the administrative border between two southern Russian republics prompts Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov to threaten violence over perceived insults.
Police detained hundreds of demonstrators who turned out for a march in Moscow on June 12 to maintain pressure on authorities following the release of Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter who was arrested on a drug charge supporters said was fabricated.
Moscow's garbage dumps are overflowing, but plans to transfer waste to Russia's provinces have infuriated local residents. Some Muscovites are taking the trash troubles into their own hands.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a decree pardoning 72-year-old, Russia-born Vyacheslav Vysotsky, a source in the Justice Ministry told Current Time.
In Georgia, members of a small Christian sect called the Dukhobors preserve the faith they brought with them from Russia in centuries past. Their forebears were persecuted and exiled for their unconventional beliefs and refusal to serve in the army.
A Kazakh man discovers a Stalin-era mass grave in his backyard.
A lawyer for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has disclosed some details of the corruption charges his client is facing in the high-profile case.
Francis Savinovskikh made headlines in Russia when the authorities took two foster children away, citing concerns that their upbringing was not "traditional." At the time, Savinovskikh had the name Yulia and didn't accept being a man.
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