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Across Russia, teachers who have taken an anti-war stance have been fired from their jobs and charged by the authorities. In Volgograd, Roman Melnichenko is considering emigration. Marina Dubrova, from Sakhalin in Russia's Far East, was denounced to the authorities by her own students.
Tetyana Sokolova continued to work at Mariupol's Maternity Hospital No. 2 for six weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine. She recalls not only working under fire, but also the everyday dramas of war.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for a food blogger and magazine founder for allegedly "spreading fake news" about the Russian military.
Veronika from Ukraine's Donetsk Region lost her family in an attack on the high-rise residential building where she lived. Hit by shrapnel, she was left in a coma. Kira from Kharkiv was hit by shelling when she was walking in a park. Her friend was killed.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for well-known journalist Maikl Naki, who is currently outside of Russia, accusing him of distributing false information about the Russian military as Moscow's war against Ukraine continues.
A Kyiv court sentenced 21-year-old Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin to life imprisonment on May 23 for the murder of an unarmed civilian.This is the first war crimes trial since the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24.
A diplomat at Russia's Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva says he has resigned in protest at the "needless" war Russia has launched against Ukraine.
Liberated Ukrainians have told the truth behind a propaganda video they were forced to take part in while their village was occupied by pro-Kremlin Chechen fighters.
The widow of a Ukrainian civilian killed by the first Russian soldier tried for war crimes said he could have "missed" instead of carrying out orders. Kateryna Shelipova's husband, Oleksandr, was shot early on in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The soldier accused pleaded guilty in Kyiv May 18.
Prosecutors in Ukraine are seeking life in prison for the first Russian soldier to stand trial on accusations of committing a war crime in Ukraine.
An elderly couple in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa have taken in 30 people displaced from their homes in the conflict zones in the eastern part of the country.
Nine-year-old Sofia Hurmaza is in hospital in Lviv, western Ukraine, after sustaining a shrapnel wound to the head that her doctor says would normally leave her in a "vegetative state." But after two days in a coma and a complex operation, her doctor says she's making a "miracle" recovery.
Latvian lawmakers have approved a bill that allows a controversial Soviet monument in the capital, Riga, to be dismantled as the Baltic nation looks to further shed its Soviet-occupied past amid Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Vyacheslav Yalov's mother, Maryna, 37, was killed in the Donbas by Russian shelling as they walked home together. He has now been evacuated to western Ukraine with his two younger brothers and two younger sisters, whom he plans to bring up alone.
Ukraine’s victory in the war unleashed against it by Russia will open a "new window of opportunities for the Belarusians," such as protests or strikes, said Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya in an interview with Current Time in Prague on May 11.
Maksym Shevchenko helped people evacuate from the suburbs of Kyiv, driving them to safer areas in March and April. He recorded the horrors inflicted on friends and neighbors with his phone and shared his stories of shellings and shootings with Current Time.
At least 112 soldiers from Russia's Buryatia region have been killed in Ukraine since February, according to the Free Buryatia Foundation. Current Time reports on some of those who have died and spoke to people in the region. (WARNING: Viewers may find the content of this video disturbing)
One of Russia's leading news websites, Lenta.ru, briefly posted materials critical of President Vladimir Putin and his government amid a crackdown by the state on independent journalism and media reports slamming Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Iryna Danilovych, an activist who had gained a reputation for defending the rights of medical workers in Crimea, disappeared while returning home from work on April 29. She hasn't been heard from since, and her family and lawyers have had no luck in finding her.
People in five Russian locales offered a range of answers on how to better spend money being used to pay for the war in Ukraine. Many noted that their cities and social services were in dire need of help, while others said they would like to see money spent on both the war and increased pensions.
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