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A video shot by a Russian soldier captures a military mutiny in Ukraine -- as men from a unit of military engineers defy their commander and refuse to fight. Photos sent by another soldier from the unit showed a basement where they were later detained.
A Russian attack on Kharkiv on July 20 killed at least three people, including a 13-year-old boy. The child's grieving father held his dead son's hand and prayed for two hours until his body was taken away. (WARNING: Viewers may find the content of this video disturbing.)
Influential Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov fled Russia for Finland shortly after Moscow's February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Durnenkov's opposition to Russia's war against Ukraine has had severe personal and professional consequences.
A Russian journalist and her actor husband who fled their country in the hope of freedom and safety in the United States are now fighting deportation for illegally entering the country via Tijuana, Mexico.
Several reporters and bloggers have been detained in Tajikistan in recent weeks as the authoritarian government stepped up attacks on independent media. Local experts described the arrests as the government’s attempt to control public opinion and silence the last critical voices.
Members of Ukraine's territorial-defense volunteer units talk about their experiences of transitioning from civilian to military life. One, a plumber in peacetime, says he "took up arms to defend my children."
An Armenian film producer collapsed and died in a Yerevan courtroom where he was facing charges of inciting hatred, raising questions about why authorities ignored defense warnings about the 57-year-old's flagging health.
Amid the ruins of Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, hundreds of homes remain abandoned three months after the retreat of Russia forces. Yevhen Yelpitiforov looks after people's apartments, keeping their plants watered and their refrigerators clean. He also picks up broken glass -- for free.
Calling Moscow's February 24 invasion of Ukraine a war is a criminal offense in Russia. Yet Russian anti-war protester Vitaly Tsitsurov has for months been picketing Russia's war in Ukraine with a sign that reads "No *ar!" Vitaly's been detained and brutally beaten for his actions.
Russia's film industry is trying to fill cinemas with homegrown produce, as new U.S. films are no longer available amid international sanctions following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. But film fans are voting with their feet -- leaving cinemas empty.
Why did Ukraine’s State Investigative Bureau destroy secret documents pertaining to major criminal cases, including against leading political figures, hours before and after Russia’s invasion in February?
Russian forces struck a market and a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on July 5. Ukrainian officials said at least two people were killed and seven others were injured. (WARNING: Viewers may find the content of this video disturbing.)
The war in Ukraine reaches beyond the country's borders. Inside Russia, the war has divided society into those who oppose the war and those who support what the Kremlin's ''military operation.'' Parents have severed relationships with their children, husbands with wives, and sisters with brothers.
Former political prisoners in Belarus say they were denied medical care in jail, subjected to the constant glare of bright lights, and bombarded with speeches by authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Russian ice hockey goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov was taken by ambulance from the St. Petersburg military commissariat during the night of July 1-2 and hospitalized, Russian media reported.
Kyiv says about 2,000 orphans have been forcibly taken to Russia following its February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Moscow is introducing new laws that will fast-track Russian citizenship for Ukrainian children and ease adoption procedures for Russian families.
Chernihiv resident Valentyna believed in March that civilian areas should be relatively safe even in cities under fire by the Russians. She learned the opposite on March 16, while standing in line for bread. Artillery fire hit the crowd, badly injuring her and killing her husband and 13 others.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved a bill that would allow it to define any person who receives financial assistance from abroad as a "foreign agent," a change making it easier for the state to target its domestic critics.
The Belarusian KGB has added 23 people to its terrorists list, including the jailed husband of opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Syarhey Tsikhanouski, and RFE/RL consultant Ihar Losik.
He's the only paramedic in the village and he reaches his patients on horseback. Ziedbek Murzalimov works at a clinic in the town of Nooken in Kyrgyzstan's Jalal-Abad region, but in his spare time, he provides medical care for free in his remote home village of Kirov, 20 kilometers away.
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