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Ukrainian Tetyana Bagatska had never been abroad until her granddaughter, Current Time's Liubov Bagatska, invited her to visit her in Prague. There she discovered electric scooters, self-service checkouts, and the wonders of Prague's Old Town.
In the village of Koyandy, 20 kilometers from the Kazakh capital, Astana, melted snow is the only easily accessible source of water available to residents without cars. They've been told they have to wait until 2021 for their own water supply.
A dog owner abandoned his pet at a bus stop in Russia's Novosibirsk region. Many months later, the dog remained in the same spot, waiting in the cold for his owner to return.
Moscow's notorious Butyrka prison is slated to be shut down within two years. One former inmate describes life on the inside of the Russian capital's oldest and largest detention facility.
A 34-year-old pipe cutter in the Russian city of Pervouralsk was mocked for her looks after entering a local pageant. With help of her supporters, she had the last laugh.
Roman Mokryak is a Ukrainian naval officer and one of 24 sailors captured by Russia during a violent encounter at sea on November 25. In his hometown of Karlivka, Ukraine, his parents say they've been unable to contact their son as he awaits trial in Moscow.
In order to reduce waste, St. Petersburg freegans not only find food to eat for themselves at garbage dumps. They also arrange charity dinners made from discarded food.
Alyaksandr Kukhta is an Orthodox priest for a small parish in Belarus, but he has twice as many followers online as in real life. He's earned loyal viewers with his videos on subjects from sex to Lenin.
Families in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan are demanding full compensation after their apartments were demolished as part of a rebuilding scheme in the city of Almetyevsk.
When winter weather leaves soot and mud on cars in Moscow, illustrator Nikita Golubev uses the layers of filth to make art.
Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region suffered from mass emigration to Israel in the 1990s, but efforts are underway to restore its identity.
The number of female soldiers in Ukraine's military has risen sharply since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. About one-third are officers like Olena Belska, who commands a mortar unit in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
Vera Selivanova is a social worker in Shelepovo in Russia's Kurgan region. She cleans houses, brings in food, and tends gardens. She says soon only the elderly will be left, and then the village will die.
Hundreds of people have held a demonstration in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan region, to protest against what organizers described as the "lawlessness” of the authorities.
Ivan Mankovsky runs a homeless charity in the southeastern Russian town of Khabarovsk. He's converted old buses into shelters to help people get through the winter after their old shelter burned down.
An area of Russia known as the Siberian Switzerland is being torn apart by coal mining. The works threaten the future of the indigenous Shors people who live a hard, simple life.
A Belarusian man is creating a free digital index of the country's largest cemetery in the western city of Hrodna to help people track down their ancestors. He has previously helped Americans trace their ancestors' graves in Belarus and put them in touch with living relatives.
A court in Russian-controlled Crimea has charged all 24 captured Ukrainian sailors of illegally crossing Russia's maritime border.
Former Russian oil tycoon and Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky has alleged that Russians working for the Central African Republic played a "serious" role in the deaths of three Russian journalists.
Russian teenagers are posting photos of an anti-Putin slogan chalked on school blackboards, after video emerged of an angry teacher saying people would have been shot for such behavior in Soviet times.
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