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Yuriy Napora sings while his dad, Nazar, plays the piano on the streets of Lviv in western Ukraine. The 8-year-old came up with the idea to raise money for the Ukrainian war effort, and his father quickly taught himself the piano so that he could accompany him. So far, they've raised over $5,000.
Hotel-occupancy rates in in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, have plummeted this year according to statistics provided by Russian tour operators. Some Russian tourists do continue to travel there but many have been deterred amid explosions and other attacks on the peninsula.
Yevgenia Albats, the chief editor of The New Times magazine,has left Russia amid the ongoing crackdown on independent media in the country.
Before the war, there were some 500 pottery factories in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk. Now, there are around 10. The owner of one, Volodymyr Kyryk, is defying both Russian shelling and calls by his own government to evacuate.
A representative of the Moscow-installed military administration in the occupied parts of Ukraine's Kherson region says a referendum on joining Russia has been postponed as Ukrainian armed forces continue military operations aimed at regaining control over the area.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky says further measures are needed to restrict the flow of Russian citizens into the European Union.
A Russian billionaire of Armenian descent has decided to renounce his Russian citizenship and move to the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Supreme Court of Belarus has labeled a group called BYPOL, which unites former law enforcement officers who support opposition politicians, as a terrorist organization.
Current Time's Borys Sachalko joined a Ukrainian crew in a Krab self-propelled howitzer. The four-man team used to operate a Soviet-era Msta-S howitzer and they say the new Polish-built Krab is faster, easier to operate, and more accurate.
U.S. political scientist Francis Fukuyama says Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered for his "unparalleled" contribution to human freedom. Gorbachev died on August 30 at the age of 91.
A Belarusian sprinter who appealed for international help to avoid being forced home prematurely from the Tokyo Olympic Games has obtained citizenship from Poland, the country where she defected with her husband last year as she fled Japan.
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, has asked the Investigative Committee to check a report by the newspaper Fontanka about the recruitment of inmates in penitentiaries to fight in the war launched against Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Svetlana Valeryevna Timofeyeva, whose personal data fully coincides with those of a woman detained in Albania on espionage charges.
On-the-street interviews in Moscow reveal that Russians are extremely uneasy discussing the war in Ukraine. But some will still admit they don't support the six-month-old unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, while others continue to back the war with a thumbs up.
Ukrainian singer Tina Karol has bought an apartment for the family of Yehor Kravtsov, a 9-year-old boy who kept a diary during the siege of Mariupol by Russian troops. The singer's manager contacted the family and offered to help after seeing a Current Time video about the boy.
Yesenia had a starring role in Ukraine's independence celebrations in 2021, striding through 1,000 years of the country's history in a video filmed on Kyiv's main Khreschatyk Street. One year later, RFE/RL spoke to the 11-year-old about her experiences of war and evacuation.
A young Chechen activist who went missing in September 2020 amid reports he was kidnapped by people close to the authorities of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya and later shown on videos being tortured, has been killed, a lawyer for a human rights group in Russia says.
Yevgeny Roizman, a former mayor of Yekaterinburg and outspoken Kremlin critic, was detained on charges of “discrediting the armed forces,” a charge that Russian authorities have used broadly to silence critics of the Ukraine invasion.
Canada has imposed sanctions on 62 more Russian citizens and one defense company over Moscow’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Vladyslav Petrenko is one of some 1,500 Ukrainian airline pilots who have been grounded since Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago. He says the military has no use for them because Ukraine has hundreds of military pilots but not enough military planes for them to fly.
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