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Two Belarusians who have been sheltering at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk since September 2020 say the Swedish government has adopted "delaying tactics" to avoid helping them.
In an interview with Current Time television, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that city authorities are tasked to ensure that the Ukrainian capital's critical infrastructure is in good working order, and bomb shelters are ready to accommodate people in case of a possible Russian attack.
Russia has added jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny and several of his allies to its list of "terrorists and extremists," as the government continues its assault on the country's civil society.
Latvia’s defense minister says no country in the West wants a conflict with Russia, but that Ukraine has a right to defend itself as fellow NATO Baltic states send assistance to Kyiv.
Latvia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine and is providing its army with anti-aircraft missiles, combat gear, and field rations, according to Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks. He spoke to Iryna Romaliyskaya of Current Time TV on January 24 in Prague.
When asked about a possible Russian invasion, residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv say they are "ready," but "hope that it won't happen."
Russia has amassed an estimated 127,000 troops near the borders of Ukraine. In the event of an invasion, some Western experts believe Kyiv's forces could be quickly overwhelmed. But analysts point to some resources that make Ukraine a stronger power than it might appear.
Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on January 21 that the detained mother of a prominent human rights lawyer faces a "real prison sentence," the Chechen authorities "will take care of" her son, and that her entire family could find themselves "underground."
As Russia masses an estimated 100,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders, it has also begun moving forces and equipment into neighboring Belarus for what Moscow said will be military exercises. One observer describes the move as a show of force by Russia, and of allegiance by Belarus.
A dead man handcuffed with two bullet wounds, and a man with head injuries from a grenade taken out of a hospital by soldiers -- Kazakhs tell their stories of the ongoing crackdown following violent anti-government unrest that shook the country at the beginning of January.
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was defiant as he landed in Kyiv on January 17 to fight charges of treason that he rejects as politically motivated.
Their parents and grandparents were deported from their homes in the Soviet Union and resettled in remote parts of Russia during World War II, because Soviet authorities considered them potential traitors. Now pensioners, they yearn to return to the places their families were expelled from.
The hard and eerie life for those who stayed in a Ukrainian ghost town after the local sugar factory closed.
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who has been out of the country since December, says he will return to Ukraine despite rumors he will be immediately arrested on charges of suspected treason.
Ivan Zhdanov and Leonid Volkov, two of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's closest associates, have been placed on the country's list of "extremists and terrorists."
Three friends in Kyrgyzstan's capital hated seeing the pollution caused by plastic waste, so they decided to take matters into their own hands.
Kazakhstan is tense, with closed shops and a sense of lawlessness as Russian-led forces are on the move to shore up the authorities after days of anti-government protests swept the country.
A steep rise in energy prices appears to have triggered protests across Kazakhstan that resulted in mass arrests, the dismissal of the government, and the declaration of a state of emergency. For many Kazakhs, there has been long-simmering discontent over issues such as corruption, unemployment, and low wages. We take a closer look at what's driving the crisis in Kazakhstan.
A folder in Ukraine's KGB Archive reveals the glittering wealth, and shocking punishment dealt out to an allegedly corrupt fruit merchant in Kyiv.
By January 15, every Ukrainian city is supposed have a territorial defense unit as fears of a Russian invasion are mounting. The units are made up of volunteers who train on weekends and who mostly use wooden props instead of real guns.
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