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Twenty years after democratic reformer Galina Starovoitova was assassinated, her sister says she does not believe that an infamous alleged crime kingpin who was implicated in the slaying was in fact behind it.
Police in Belarus made a boy apologize on video for slapping a statue of a policeman. When people responded by recording themselves kissing it, how would police react?
A Russian rom-com set during the construction of a bridge linking Crimea to Russia has been panned by critics and a box-office disappointment.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has published the identities of 206 men who it says served for a shadowy Russian mercenary group called Vagner, in conflicts including Ukraine and Syria. Gravestones in Tolyatti, western Russia, record when four of those men died -- but where and how?
A Ukrainian anticorruption activist has died of her wounds following an acid attack in July. She died six weeks after making an impassioned video from her hospital bed, in which she listed dozens of attacks on civic activists that police have failed to clear up.
There are few roads through the swampy tundra in western Siberia, so one resident is trying to build a tiny float plane that ordinary people can afford.
Karabash, in Russia's Ural Mountains, is home to a copper-smelting plant that belches toxic clouds and leaks arsenic and mercury. Some residents fear for their safety -- but leaving is not an easy option.
He clears garbage wearing a turquoise stocking on his head, has 16,000 followers, and calls himself Cleanerman.
Ukrainian physics teacher Pavel Viktor became an unexpected celebrity after his online lectures went viral. Days after he was interviewed by Current Time, Viktor was assaulte on his way from work. Now hospitalized, he's already thinking of the work he has to do when he gets back to the classroom.
Hundreds of people have gathered in Moscow to read out the names of people killed in Josef Stalin's 1930s repressions. This year, city authorities withdrew permission for the annual event, but later relented after a public outcry.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attended an October 28 military parade in the Czech capital, Prague, to commemorate the 1918 declaration of Czechoslovak independence.
Pavel Viktor, a science teacher in Odesa, Ukraine, started posting his lectures on YouTube for absent students. He never expected the videos to gain millions of views beyond his classroom.
A Ukrainian businessman faces trial for treason amid allegations he was tasked with setting up a pro-Kremlin political party. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has released covert recordings which they say incriminate Timofiy Nahornyy -- who denies the charges.
After being diagnosed with brain cancer, Kyiv-based Russian journalist and documentary filmmaker Leonid Kanfer is determined to make the most of each day he has left.
Bella, a 21-year-old Nigerian, says she was released from sexual slavery in Moscow after an NGO helped police locate her. She says she entered Russia with promises of work and a Fan ID for the World Cup -- an alternative to a visa that was arranged by human traffickers.
Russian LGBT activists are demanding police in Yekaterinburg investigate homophobic assaults and threats.
Protests have been under way for nearly two weeks in the Russian republic of Ingushetia over a land-swap deal with neighboring Chechnya. Opponents say the agreement cedes land with deep significance to the Ingush people, and are demanding that the republic's leader resign.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople agreed on October 11 to recognize the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, making waves in Moscow. In one Ukrainian village, a schism has already been playing out with a fight over the only local church.
The U.S. special envoy for Ukraine has said that elections planned by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are illegitimate and urged Moscow not to endorse them.
Georgia has begun to phase in its ban on plastic bags.
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