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Garbage is piling up on the streets of Nizhneudinsk, in Russia's Irkutsk region, after the Defense Ministry closed the town's main dump.
Desperate villagers have painted "SOS" in big letters on their roofs to get help from the authorities in Tatarstan, Russia. Their houses are crumbling, they have no running water, and the last public buses were in March.
The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, has approved in its third and final reading a bill that provides for countermeasures against the United States and other countries that imposed sanctions against Russia.
Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman has announced his resignation, saying he refused to take part in the process of abolishing the direct election of the mayor in Russia's fourth-largest city.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved in its first reading a bill which provides for the jailing for up to four years of Russians who adhere to economic sanctions imposed by the United States.
Hundreds protested in Moscow on May 13 against government attempts to curtail Internet freedom after authorities blocked the Telegram messaging service last month. A broad spectrum of political organizations joined the rally. Police detained at least 20 participants.
A court in Moscow has rejected a request by investigators to transfer to house arrest a former director of Moscow's embattled Gogol Center theater, who is charged with embezzlement and fraud in a case that has sent a chill through Russian culture.
Current Time TV correspondent Aleksei Aleksandrov was briefly detained by the police in Moscow on May 5 while covering a protest against President Vladimir Putin that was organized by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. A reporter for RFE/RL's Russian Service was also detained.
A number of protesters were detained by police at a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin on May 5 in Moscow, part of a nationwide protest action organized by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
They don't use contraceptives and they don't attend universities. The Evangelical Christian Holy Zionists are a Ukrainian religious community founded in the 1930s.
Thousands of people threw paper airplanes in central Moscow to protest against efforts by the Russian government to block the Telegram messaging app.
Serj Tankian, System of a Down's lead singer, is widely popular in Armenia. He's been supporting the protests that brought about the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian. Tankian spoke with Current Time TV about the dramatic events on April 23 from his home in Los Angeles.
Former Soviet chemical-weapons engineer Vladimir Uglyov, who helped develop Novichok, discusses the poison used in the attack in England on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
Protests continued in Yerevan on April 20 against former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's move into his new role as prime minister. Speaking to Current Time TV, opposition lawmaker and protest leader Nikol Pashinian said that the protests are entirely peaceful.
The lower house of the Belarusian parliament has approved in its first reading draft amendments to the country’s media law that would tighten control over online news websites and social-media networks.
A Russian government agency wants Russians studying abroad to come home.
Activists say police have forcefully dispersed protesters who were blocking a road to a controversial garbage dump near the town of Volokolamsk, and briefly detained at least 10 of them.
A dawn trek through the snow, helping out at the post office, paying an elderly neighbor's bills, and delivering food -- it's all part of a day's work for Anatoly Kartashov. The 59-year-old plumber in Russia's Smolensk Oblast spends his spare moments looking out for everyone in his community.
Filip Vogel and Petr Javurek spent 10 months traveling around the world in one of the most joked-about cars from Soviet times.
Thousands of people demonstrated in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on March 27 to demand answers and accountability after a fire at a shopping mall killed 64 people, including many children. The father of one victim addressed the crowd, describing the last phone conversation he had with his daughter.
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