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Russian laws ban using minors in election campaigns, but that hasn’t stopped a school in Daghestan from posting photos of children holding pro-Putin posters.
Yelena Matveyeva says her husband Stanislav was killed in Syria, where he was fighting alongside pro-government troops as a private mercenary. She wants Russian government recognition of her husband's service so that she and her children can feel proud of him.
Circus performers of all kinds have been coming from the Russian village of Baranovka for nearly 50 years now.
The wife of one of the Russian mercenaries reportedly killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria says he and others were sent into battle without any defense, "like pigs."
Mikheil Saakashvili, Ukrainian opposition figure and former Georgian president, has vowed to push ahead with his struggle against Ukraine's leadership. Speaking to Current Time in Warsaw on February 13, Saakashvili blamed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for his deportation to Poland.
Mikheil Saakashvili has vowed to push ahead with his struggle against Ukraine's leadership in defiant remarks in Warsaw, a day after he was seized in Kyiv and banished to Poland in a dramatic expulsion he has blamed on President Petro Poroshenko.
When this 76-year-old Russian pensioner needs to herd her cows, she skates across the frozen waters of Lake Baikal to find them.
Galina Lobova was left at an orphanage in 1989 after Soviet doctors warned her parents that they couldn't care for a disabled child. Now she and her husband, who also has a disability, have created the family home they never had and are busy raising their 3-year-old son.
Yevgeny Kosovskikh hits the streets in his mobile doctor's office every Saturday to show that homeless people in Russia are deserving of "different medicine."
Meet the 88-year-old widow who braved the freezing Russian winter to sell her self-published fairy-tales on the streets -- melting hearts and winning fame.
Kazakhstan's Olympic biathlon team gets ready for the Winter Games in South Korea.
British-American investor Bill Browder said he believes that Russian oligarchs are in "a state of absolute fear" over being named by the U.S. government this week on a list for possible financial sanctions.
An 8-year prison term for former Russian regional Governor Nikita Belykh is like a "death sentence," according to his wife Yekaterina Reifert. She was speaking to Current Time TV in Moscow after he was sentenced for a bribery conviction on February 1.
Smugglers are using drones to breach the border between Ukraine and Slovakia, supplying EU black markets with contraband cigarettes.
Russian prosecutors have recommended a 10-year prison term for former Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev for extortion, while the defendant asked the court to acquit him and called for perjury charges against the head of state oil giant Rosneft.
Vyacheslav Maltsev, an outspoken Kremlin critic and leader of an outlawed Russian nationalist opposition movement, says he has become a "political refugee" in the European Union.
After complaining about hazing in the Belarusian Army, a young conscript was found hanged, the second such suspicious case in recent months.
A series of anonymous bomb threats phoned in to authorities in cities across Russia have prompted evacuations at schools, shopping malls, theaters, and universities.
A court in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has fined a local activist for placing a plaque commemorating a victim of Soviet persecutions on a house that has protected status.
The new U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Washington is considering sending Kyiv weapons to help government forces defend themselves against Russia-backed separatists.
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