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Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting some paranormal support from a coven of Moscow witches looking to cash in on his popularity.
Tomsk's beloved puppeteer, Vladimir Zakharov, built and ran his own theater in the Siberian city after switching from robotics to puppetry in the 1990s. He died tragically in early February while trying to save his puppets after his workshop caught fire.
In Krasny Sulin in Russia's Rostov region, an amateur theater company set up by the founder of the town's ironworks is still performing, almost a decade after the plant was shut down and broken up for scrap.
Female lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan plan to introduce a bill to outlaw sexual harassment.
A local Tajik celebrity has been fined for throwing a birthday party that authorities say breached the law regulating private gatherings.
Sergei Amelchenko braves snow, ice, and cold to bring clean drinking water to remote villages in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region.
Plans to create a mega landfill site a thousand kilometers from Moscow might relieve the Russian capital's garbage burden, but local people have staged angry protests.
Nurse Sagilya Nigmatullina walks 48 kilometers a week so that she can tend to patients in the remote village of Pervomayka, in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk. She earns just $150 a month but says the walk is good for her and that she's never thought of quitting.
A 28-year-old Belarusian escort who said she had evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election appears to have rowed back from her claims, in her first interview since being released from detention in Moscow. Anastasia Vashukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka, gained global notoriety and spent nearly a year in a Thai prison after saying she had recordings of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska discussing the election on his yacht in 2016.
Residents in the Russian town of Sibay say they are suffering respiratory problems from clouds of sulfur dioxide that are billowing from an old copper quarry.
Kara and Wei Hung, a couple living in North Dakota, want their adopted daughter, Audrey Aida, to understand the country where she was born. So the whole family moved to Bishkek to soak up Kyrgyz culture for half a year.
Ukraine says it will ensure children in major regional hospitals receive an education from September 2019. Some 2,000 children are currently educated in hospitals, but one group, which runs a "School For Superheroes" in a Kyiv hospital, says 10,000 hospitalized children need schooling.
A debate about the prevalence of bullying in Kazakhstan's schools has been ignited by a video that showed students being viciously attacked in the city of Turkestan.
Kazakhs mourned the death of a wildlife ranger who sought to protect the rare Saiga antelope. He was killed in the line of duty.
A new law which creates a new organ donor database for Ukraine has led to surgeons refusing to perform transplants. They say operating could result in prosecution because many new bylaws have yet to be enacted. The government has called the move "an act of sabotage."
Mikhail Zhyzneuski, who was shot dead five years ago, on January 22, 2014, during the Euromaidan protests, is considered a hero in Ukraine. But in his home city of Homel in Belarus, his grave has been vandalized and his family say they have been treated as pariahs.
Ivan Plakhuta lives in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk and makes traditional felt boots or valenki. He says many of the old makers, from whom he learned his craft, have died, but says demand for his boots remains strong.
With a burst of flames and a boom that roars down the valley -- a 1950s howitzer blasts holes in the snow to prevent avalanches on Europe's highest peak, the 5,642 meter Mt. Elbrus in Russia's Caucasus Mountains.
A Belarusian model who claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has apologized to a Russian tycoon as she also proclaimed her innocence of prostitution-related charges against her.
A Moscow court on January 19 extended for three days the custody of Anastasia Vashukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Thursday (January 17) on suspicion of "enticement into prostitution."
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