Aleksei Aleksandrov is a reporter for Current Time TV, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
Andrei Pivovarov was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the West and Russia on August 1. In an interview with Current Time, Pivovarov said he will work from exile to create a "dialogue" among opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A Russian doctor who was involved in efforts to diagnose Aleksei Navalny after he was poisoned in 2020 says traces of poison can be removed from a dead body. Speaking to Current Time, Aleksandr Polupan also said there was no reason for the Russian authorities not to hand over the body..
More than seven months after the first mobilization drive, anxiety is rising over speculation of a second wave and Russians looking to avoid getting caught up in the fight of Ukraine at home – and abroad -- are facing a new set of obstacles.
The war of words is the latest in what many analysts see as a deepening rift under way between the Russian military elite and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary company, amid Russia’s setbacks on the battlefield.
With fighting raging in eastern Ukraine as winter sets in, attention is also shifting to the war's southern front in Zaporizhzhya, where Ukrainian forces are eager to cut Russian forces off from the so-called "land bridge" connecting the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland.
Former Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov discusses how Kyiv is coping after massive Russian missile strikes targeted the country’s civilian heating infrastructure just at the approach of winter.
Russian political commentator Ivan Preobrazhensky says the Kremlin is pushing ahead with the attempted annexation of four more Ukrainian regions and a mass military mobilization in a bid to turn its invasion of Ukraine into a “defensive war” for domestic audiences.
A businessman known as "Putin's chef" has now developed "a taste for business in blood," according to a leading Russian campaigner for prisoners' rights. Olga Romanova said that Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin had personally visited prisons to recruit convicts to fight in Ukraine.
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.
Russian forces in control of territory in Ukraine’s south are reviving discussions about holding referendums on integrating the occupied areas into Russia.
In an interview with Current Time, Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence warned that Kyiv is on the brink of losing territory and is currently outgunned.
Kherson's mayor discusses the lists and selective raids that have become part of life under Russian occupation as officials in Kyiv warn about a potential staged vote meant to carve off parts of Ukraine's south.
Retired federal Judge Saidi Yangulbayev and his daughter have fled Russia after his wife was "abducted" by Chechen police from their apartment in the city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia's Volga region, which is some 1,800 kilometers away from Chechnya.
The city of Krasnoyarsk is considered to have some of the most polluted air, not just in Russia, but on Earth. For several weeks each year, the city announces an environmental alert they call "Black Sky."
A trio of 14-year-old boys in Russia face up to 10 years in prison after being charged with "training for terrorist activities" in a case that began with accusations they were trying to blow up a virtual Federal Security Service headquarters they built in the computer game Minecraft.
Artyom Vazhenkov, a coordinator of Russia's Open Society opposition movement, is back in Moscow after being detained in Minsk during the aftermath of the disputed presidential election. He spoke of the torture and other abuse he endured and witnessed at the detention facility where he was held.
The Soviet authorities pulled out all the stops to host a clean Olympics in 1980, even if it meant resorting to dirty tricks.
Moscow activists say a new road project next to a Soviet-era nuclear waste site could pose a radioactive risk.
The daughter of Natalya Estemirova, the Russian rights activist who who was abducted and killed 10 years ago, said she blames President Vladimir Putin, the leader of Chechnya, “and the whole system that they have built” for her mother’s death.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting some paranormal support from a coven of Moscow witches looking to cash in on his popularity.
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