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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.
Constitutional amendments initiated by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev will annul the current right of the Karakalpak region to seek independence.
"When they take a break, we get to work," says Ihor, referring to Russian artillery pounding targets in eastern Ukraine. Since war began, Ihor has reconnected nearly 20 kilometers of power lines that were cut by shelling. Before the next salvos come flying in, he'll be cycling to the next job.
Despite there being an exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant since the catastrophic 1986 disaster, people live in the area. On the first day of the war they found themselves facing a new danger, as Russian tanks rolled through their villages -- and opened fire.
The battle for Syevyerodonetsk has an uncanny echo of the fighting in Mariupol, with Ukrainian forces holding out in a huge industrial facility. But a former worker says the two plants are very different.
A Belarusian activist has been handed a lengthy prison term for his participation in a wave of protests against the results of a presidential election in August 2020 that handed Alyaksandr Lukashenka a landslide victory, despite claims by opposition leaders that the vote was rigged.
Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, has blocked the website of Britain's The Telegraph daily as Moscow attempts to control the flow of information related to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A court in Belarus has sentenced opposition activist Lyudmila Ramanovich to 18 months in prison for a letter she sent to the Investigative Committee in early March protesting Belarus's involvement in Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Another former member of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has left Russia amid an ongoing crackdown against defunct organizations associated with the Kremlin critic that were labeled "extremist" last year.
NATO's secretary-general has warned that the war in Ukraine could go on for years and urged the supply of state-of-the-art weapons to Kyiv even if "costs are high," as Ukraine's allies sought to preempt any international "fatigue" nearly four months into Russia's unprovoked invasion.
Current Time reporters asked people across Russia how and when they think Russian President Vladimir Putin will leave office and what changes his departure might bring.
When a groom slapped his bride at an Uzbek wedding on June 6, it made global headlines. Uzbek women's rights campaigner Aqida Khanum told RFE/RL that the man, who works at a market, was acting within social norms within Uzbekistan, where women are "on the lowest rung in society."
The commander of the Admiral Makarov, a Russian frigate that has been firing on Ukraine, previously served in the Ukrainian Navy before switching sides after Russia seized Crimea in 2014. His cousin and former neighbors in his childhood village told us of their hurt and anger at what he's doing.
Two former members of the U.S. military who were reportedly fighting alongside Ukrainian armed forces in the war against Russia have gone missing in eastern Ukraine amid fears they have been captured by Russian troops.
Ukrainian authorities have asked the 15,000 residents of Lysychansk to evacuate immediately, but there is only one road out and many refuse to take it. Even with shells falling nearby, people insist they and their children will stay.
A Belarusian father and son have evaded 24/7 surveillance to flee their country after spending almost two years at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk, where they were living to avoid arrest after demonstrating against a presidential election widely seen as falsified.
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