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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.
Moscow police have detained dozens of journalists and activists after they were identified using a facial recognition system in the city's metro according to the OVD-Info group, which monitors the arrests of representatives of democratic institutions, rights defenders, and opposition politicians.
The Committee Against Torture (KPP), a prominent human rights group in Russia, has announced it has closed down operations after being labeled a foreign agent, the third time an iteration of the activist group has received the designation from authorities since 2015.
In Ukraine, a crowd gathers to get their monthly pension payments in cash amid the rumble of artillery nearby. These people used to travel to a neighboring town to get their money, but the road is now too dangerous. Instead, local officials travel to them under armed guard.
A Russian rocket attack hit a school in the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region on June 8, turning part of the building into a pile of rubble and shredding textbooks. The school was empty at the time of the attack. Current Time's Borys Sachalko visited the site.
"From abroad, we are seen as one big Putin," says Lyudmila, a Russian pensioner who is flying the Ukrainian flag from her window in Novosibirsk. The security forces sent someone to climb the building to snatch it, but she simply put another one in its place -- from the inside.
The director of a Russian college in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has quit after saying he would not punish or exclude students fined by the authorities for publicly objecting to the war in Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has changed the one-year parole-like sentence handed to opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, a close associate of jailed anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny, to real prison time saying she violated the terms of her punishment by leaving the country.
After weeks of searching, Lilia Borysovska discovered her brother was being held in a prison in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine. But she's relatively lucky. Many Ukrainians are still desperately searching for loved ones who have disappeared without a trace.
He points to what he says are entry and exit wounds where a bullet passed through his face. Mykola Kulychenko says a Russian soldier placed a gun to his mouth and tried to execute him, and says his two brothers were shot dead, with one falling on top of him.
Several Russian online newspapers have been forced to take down a list of the country’s military personnel killed in Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine after a court ruled the information was banned from being distributed.
The Moscow region's prosecutor's office has started the process to strip an activist who has protested against the war in Ukraine of his Russian citizenship, even though he has lived almost his entire life in Russia and would be stateless if his passport is revoked.
Ukrainian marine Oleksandr Pykuy lost both his lower arms in the battle for Mariupol. He was evacuated to the Azovstal steel plant from where the Ukrainian military flew him out by helicopter. On returning to safety, he married his girlfriend, Tetyana.
Yelena Sleptsova, a grammar school teacher who escaped Syevyerodonetsk, a city under heavy shelling in Ukraine's east, recounts getting her mother onto a packed train in Kharkiv. Passengers were herded in while soldiers fired into the air to quell panicking mobs at the train station.
A Belarusian labor union activist who took part in a large strike by workers of the Naftan oil-processing company in 2020 was found hanged several days after police questioned him with regard to an unspecified case.
Vyacheslav, 18, from Ukraine's Donetsk region, became the guardian of four younger siblings after their mother was killed by a Russian shell and their house was completely destroyed. Hundreds have now offered to help the family after their story featured in a video by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
A court in Ukraine's northeastern town of Kotelva has sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11.5 years in prison each after finding them guilty of violating the rules of war.
When Alina Shabanova fled her home she was not only concerned about escaping bombs and bullets -- her life depended on securing life-saving antiretroviral drugs. The war has disrupted supplies of the medication, vital for the 250,000 Ukrainians who have HIV.
Efforts to pursue "Russification" are gathering pace in areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces. They include mobile TV units showing Russian news channels on big screens, summer schools to prepare children for the Russian school curriculum, plus a move to Russian rubles and Russian passports.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny used a court appearance this week for a defiant and angry anti-war speech. The court rejected his appeal against a 9-year prison sentence for a previous conviction he and his supporters say is politically motivated.
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