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Thousands took to the streets across Belarus to protest after the authorities excluded opposition leader Viktar Babaryka from the August 9 presidential election
Running for president in Belarus is a dangerous business. Candidates in previous elections have been imprisoned and beaten up.
Dozens of activists gathered outside the Lefortovo prison in Moscow on July 13 to support former journalist Ivan Safronov.
A Russian prosecutor said the mysterious deaths of a group of hikers killed six decades ago in the Ural Mountains was due to hypothermia, disorientation, and an avalanche, and that the newly reopened investigation was now closed.
Hundreds marched through Khabarovsk amid a second day of protests in the Russian Far Eastern city over the arrest of a popular regional governor.
Desperate relatives are waiting in line for hours for an overwhelmed Kazakh morgue to release the bodies of their loved ones, raising questions about the country's COVID-19 data. Official statistics show hundreds of deaths related to COVID-19 and more than 1,000 dead from "pneumonia." But Chinese news reports about a form of pneumonia in Kazakhstan that is deadlier than the coronavirus have been dismissed by the Kazakh Health Ministry as "fake news."
A Siberian village, Tayezhnyy, was swamped with trash when Ilona Domracheva moved there. She didn't like what she saw and, in a short time, she mobilized the community to help clean up. She may have won a battle, but the war on waste goes on.
Police in Russia have searched the homes of coordinators of Open Russia opposition group, chief editor of independent MBKh Media online publication, and independent municipal candidates.
A former Russian journalist who has been arrested on treason charges is alleged to have handed secrets to the United States via the Czech intelligence service, according to his lawyer. Ivan Safronov was detained on July 7.
Russian street artist Boris Makarov, alias Bob Makar, has taken a spray can to gray walls in his hometown of Dubna, north of Moscow. He says he wants to brighten up people's lives. Even the local municipal head likes his work.
Russia has arrested a former journalist on a charge of high treason for allegedly passing military secrets to a NATO government in what some are calling a clear attack on press freedoms.
Chechen blogger Mamikhan Umarov, who was shot dead in Vienna on July 4, claimed on his YouTube channel that he had compromising material on Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. His killing is the latest in a series of attacks on Kadyrov critics in Europe.
At least eight journalists have been arrested near the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters in Moscow for conducting single-person demonstrations in support of detained former journalist Ivan Safronov Jr. Safronov was working as an adviser to the chief of Russia's Roskosmos state space agency. The agency's press service said that Safronov was detained on July 7 and added that the treason charge he faces is not related to his position there.
Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva says she will appeal after a court found her guilty of "justifying terrorism" and ordered her to pay a fine of 500,000 rubles (about $7,000). The court in the western Russian city of Pskov announced its verdict on July 6 in a case that has drawn condemnation from human rights groups. The charges related to a 2018 article Prokopyeva wrote linking a suicide bombing to Russia's political climate.
A member of a district election commission in Moscow says the chairwoman of the district worked when Russians voted for constitutional amendments even though she had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Latvia has banned Russia's RT television channels from being distributed on its territory because of international sanctions against the head of the Russian state TV network, Dmitry Kiselyov.
Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) says overall turnout was nearly 28.5 percent on the third day of a weeklong vote for constitutional amendments that could pave the way for an extension of President Vladimir Putin’s rule by 12 years.
A game for mobile phones has appeared in Kyrgyzstan designed to deal with bride abductions, which are illegal but have strong cultural roots in the country and still regularly occur. Each player becomes the protagonist of the story and chooses how the story will turn out.
A Moscow court has handed theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov a three-year suspended sentence after finding him guilty on embezzlement charges he has rejected.
Russians are going to the polls to vote on constitutional changes that would allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in office for two more terms. Putin supports the amendment, but over his many years in power, he's repeatedly denied that he would change the constitution to extend his rule. Here’s a look back at his previous statements that are at odds with what he is saying now.
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