Anna Shamanska is a social-media producer for Current Time TV, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
This video, intended for children ages 3 to 8, uses simple terms to help them understand why it is so important to stay at home while the coronavirus outbreak continues.
Klingon, Elvish, Dothraki, and Nadsat: there are plenty of invented languages used in movies. But one of them, Interslavic, has the potential to be useful to hundreds of millions of people. The language just made its movie debut in a wartime drama, The Painted Bird, and its creator says it could be used by Slavic speakers from Siberia to Slovenia.
A Ukrainian Church -- that currently doesn’t even exist -- is about to change the Orthodox world. A higher authority in Constantinople is considering granting it independence. This move is angering the Russian Orthodox Church, which is threatening to break ties with the other churches.
Members of a Russian socio-military group who call themselves Cossacks have been using their nagaikas to whip up a storm of controversy lately. The origins -- and the intentions -- of these neo-Cossacks are being hotly debated.
Why have Greece and the Republic of Macedonia been locked in a name dispute for over two decades? We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
The now-50-year-old Astakhov shocked Russians and others alike in June when he quipped to child survivors of a deadly boating tragedy, "So how was the swim?"
Russia’s May 9 Victory Day is a major holiday and source of pride for authorities and citizens alike. Everyone is given an official day off in honor of the occasion and schoolchildren are encouraged to “voluntarily” attend military parades, organize concerts for local veterans, and participate in official celebrations. But this year, some children are being pushed to take that pride to bizarre lengths.
The body of Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has been buried in Kyiv, nearly 16 years after his killing, but family and friends say their fight for justice is not over.not over.
For a Kremlin-backed leader already accused of running a brutal regime in Chechnya, anything -- and apparently anyone -- is fair game.
A separatist leader in eastern Ukraine has admitted to burning down a village at the height of fighting more than a year ago, while praising a proposal for restoring the place.
A Berlin-based correspondent for Russian state television finds himself accused of incitement after reporting about migrants allegedly gang raping a 13-year-old girl.
For most of his 42-minute appearance on a radio talk show, former Russia-backed separatist commander Igor Girkin sounded like nothing more than a fanatic discussing a dream now widely dismissed as fantasy. It wasn't until the last minute that the interview with him went from surreal to chilling.
Who stands behind the destruction of electricity pylons in southern Ukraine that left almost 2 million residents of Crimea in the dark? And why isn't Russia supplying power to its annexed territory in the first place?
The surprise arrest -- and rearrest -- of a powerful political enemy of Ukraine's president raised hackles, and suspicions of a political vendetta. What's it all about?
The voice of the Kremlin's supporters is loud and clear on social media -- in memes that fall neatly into three categories.
Few Russians are actively looking for ways to go fight in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, but they are trolled online nonetheless.
A journalist has become the go-between for an emotional exchange of video messages between Aleksandr Aleksandrov, a Russian who was captured during what he says was an active-duty mission in Ukraine, and his parents back home in a province east of Moscow.
RFE/RL explains the controversial legislation at the heart of the dispute and what to expect next.
As Russia sweeps Western cleaning products from the shelves, the Internet responds with a wash of mocking memes -- some gentle, others more abrasive.
Russia's president submerges himself in Crimea's waters and the Internet reacts.
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