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Graphic footage of the death of Belarusian protester Alyaksandr Taraykouski appears to contradict claims by officials that he was killed by an improvised explosive device he was trying to throw at riot police.
Residents of the city of Aleksandrov, north of Moscow, say they want a giant landfill site closed permanently, claiming it's a health hazard.
Thousands of people have gathered at the spot in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, where a protester died in clashes with police.
Anxious relatives gather at the walls of Belarusian jails, while inside there are reports of beatings and humiliations. Thousands of people have been detained amid days of protests against the alleged rigging of the August 9 presidential election.
Women in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, have formed human chains in solidarity with protesters detained and beaten by the police. The protests began after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed he had been reelected on August 9 for a sixth term. The results are widely seen as falsified.
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has left her country, apparently under duress, amid a wave of protests against the alleged falsification of the country's recent presidential election. Western governments have criticized both the election and a crackdown by security forces.
Kyrgyzstan has detained well-known Uzbek journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev at Tashkent's request.
Belarusian authorities have deported three correspondents from Current Time ahead of a crucial presidential election in the country.
Belarusian authorities have detained three correspondents from Current Time in the capital, Minsk, just days before the country holds a crucial presidential election.
The prosecutor in the Russian city of Perm has called for prison sentences for three activists accused of involvement in erecting an effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018.
Ballot boxes will sit for five nights, unsupervised, amid early voting which has begun in the Belarusian presidential election. It's just one part of the process ringing alarm bells about election rigging in a country where previous elections have not been deemed free or fair by Western observers.
The makers of a new Kyrgyz movie say they were denied a distribution license after a film commission objected to scenes showing corrupt government officials. Motherland, by director Mederbek Jalilov, tells the story of a conflict between Kyrgyz villagers and a Chinese investor.
After being flooded for decades, the Russian town of Mologa is reemerging from the waters of a hydroelectric dam's reservoir.
Independent observers who've been monitoring early voting in the Belarusian presidential election have been detained across the country after documenting numerous violations of the election law.
Belarusian presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, an English translator who joined the presidential race after her husband, popular vlogger Syarhey Tsikhanouski, was arrested, talked on August 3 to Current Time correspondent Iryna Romaliiskaya in Minsk.
Two protest movements are 9,000 kilometers apart: one in Russia and one in Belarus -- but they're united by their desire for basic democratic norms. Current Time reporters tracked down the protesters in Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East, who reached out to their counterparts in Belarus.
Valer Tsapkala, a barred challenger to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, says the strongman will not use force if thousands take to the streets to challenge the results of the August 9 election. (Current Time)
An exiled challenger to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says the strongman will not use force if large crowds take to the streets to challenge the results of the upcoming election.
It was Day 23 on August 2 of ongoing demonstrations in support of dismissed Khabarovsk regional Governor Sergei Furgal. The protesters gathered outside the regional administration building in the Russian Far East city, chanting Furgal's surname and the slogan, "We will come tomorrow."
A critic of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka who last month fled the country along with his children after his and others' candidacies were rejected for next week's presidential election has reportedly left Russia for neighboring Ukraine.
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