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After decades as a professional driver, Galina Yakoleva now delivers much more than food and clothes to lonely pensioners in St. Petersburg. She brings kindness.
Oyub Titiyev, a dogged Russian activist who is in jail and on trial in his native Chechnya on what he says is a fabricated drug-possession charge, says he was not tortured in prison only because of his age.
A ghost town in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia is being slowly swallowed by nature.
Chechen human rights activist Oyub Titiyev accused police of planting drugs on him before he was arrested for the possession of an illegal substance.
An 80-year-old woman in Russia's Lipetsk Region shares the bounty of her local river with neighbors, after first catching the fish with her bare hands.
Crowds in Russia's Daghestan region were on their feet since the early morning of October 7 to watch a televised duel in which native son Khabib Nurmagomedov fought for a world-champion title in mixed martial arts.
Thousands of people protested in Magas, Ingushetia, against an agreement for an exchange of territory between Ingushetia and Chechnya.
Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia after opposing Moscow's takeover of his Crimean homeland, says he is being forced to end his hunger strike after 144 days to avoid force-feeding.
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president announced the end to free gas, electricity, water, and salt -- winning applause and lavish praise from the rubber-stamp People's Assembly.
A laundromat for the homeless is facing opposition in Moscow.
Rallies organized by the Communist Party were held across Russia on September 22 to protest unpopular pension-reform proposals.
A Kazakh pensioner has spent 30 years building a medieval-style castle in the mountains near Almaty. He says it was his childhood dream.
Protesters tried to force their way into the parliament building in Kyiv, during a demonstration to ease rules on Ukrainian citizenship for foreigners who fought against Russia-backed separatists.
The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia.
An art exhibit in Kyiv focuses on LGBT people who have served in the conflict in the country's east. One ex-soldier who took part in the project says it breaks taboos by showing gay and lesbian soldiers as defenders of the country.
Russian police used force to break up peaceful protests across the country on September 9. Thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against planned pension reforms that would raise the retirement age. Some protesters were beaten and more than 1,000 people were detained, including children.
Thousands of Russians across the country have protested the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
Russian high school students are unable to buy books needed for school by some of the country's greatest writers, due to a profanity law signed by Vladimir Putin in 2014.
After Lithuania declared independence in 1990, new borders appeared between the country and the neighboring Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Residents of one building in the Kaliningrad town of Sovetsk found themselves living inside the border zone, cut off from their neighbors by a checkpoint.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has declared that Israel "will try to destroy any Iranian military presence on the territory of Syria." He has also said he hopes that "reasonable people will take the power in Iran." Lieberman spoke on September 4 in Tel Aviv to RFE/RL's Radio Farda and Current Time -- a Russian-language digital network produced by RFE/RL in cooperation with Voice of America.
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