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Protests in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, continue following the prime minister's decision to end accession talks with the European Union. Demonstrators faced tear gas and water cannons during the night of November 30 to December 1.
Georgian police clashed with protesters in Tbilisi, early on November 29 after the ruling party said the government would suspend talks on European Union accession. While covering the protests, Current Time cameraman George Tchumburidze was thrown thrown off a ledge near the parliament building.
New defenses are being built just outside Pavlohrad in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region as Russian forces slowly advance in the east. Meanwhile, more evacuees are arriving in the city, Current Time's Borys Sachalko reports.
Russia has been expanding its strategic ties with the Iranian-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen to hurt Western interests in the Red Sea. The Kremlin may even consider arming the Huthis with advanced weapons, experts say.
Ukrainian troops have complained that people are avoiding military service and leaving them outnumbered on the front line, in interviews near Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine on November 20.
Soltan Achilova, a veteran journalist and former RFE/RL correspondent in Turkmenistan, was forcibly hospitalized in Ashgabat on November 20 in what appears to be a move by the government to prevent her from flying to Geneva to receive an international award.
Russian police have conducted searches at the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Perm, as well as at the home of its current director, in connection with a case against former director Marat Gelman,.
The Russian Army is positioned only a few kilometers from Kupyansk, a city in Ukraine's Kharkiv region where some 4,000 people still live. Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko spoke with locals about how they manage to live in the embattled city amid daily Russian attacks.
Finnish and German authorities have briefed NATO commanders on what they know about damage to two key Internet cables under the Baltic Sea. The German defense minister said sabotage was suspected. The incidents come as NATO military drills are being held in the Nordic country.
As their country marks 1,000 days of war, Ukrainian soldiers on the front line spoke with Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko about the ongoing conflict with Russia. Dmytro, a Ukrainian soldier, said when the war started he had no fear, but after years of fighting, he says he has no emotions.
A Moscow court on November 19 sentenced a former local lawmaker in absentia to eight years in prison for spreading "fake news" about the Russian military.
President Vladimir Putin on November 19 signed a decree updating and expanding Moscow's nuclear doctrine to allow for the use of atomic weapons in case of an attack on Russia by a non-nuclear actor that is backed by a nuclear power.
November 19 marks 1,000 days since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Current Time asked residents of Kyiv how and when they think the war might end.
U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to let Kyiv hit targets deeper inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles comes as Moscow's war on Ukraine passes its 1,000th day. While some experts say the move will boost Ukraine's defense capabilities, others say it came too late.
A Moscow court on November 18 sentenced Daniil Golikov, 28, and Andrei Kozlovsky, 26, to 2.5 and 3 years in a colony-settlement for vandalizing an informal memorial to participants in the war in Ukraine.
Russian opposition figures headed a march in Berlin condemning President Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. "Freedom for Russia, victory for Ukraine!" was one of the slogans heard in the German capital on November 17.
Nearly 2,000 exiled Russians and other opponents of President Vladimir Putin and his unprovoked war against Ukraine marched to the Russian Embassy in Berlin on November 17, with leading activist Yulia Navalnaya declaring that “Putin is a murderer.”
A Ukrainian police officer from Mariupol has returned to service in the embattled Donetsk region after being captured during the siege of the Azovstal steel plant and spending months in a prison camp run by Russian forces.
Ahead of what opposition leaders abroad hope will be a major demonstration in Berlin this weekend against Putin’s government and its war on Ukraine, controversy over a powerful and pervasive symbol -- the Russian flag -- has sparked a dispute.
Opposition leaders in Georgia's Moscow-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia claimed late on November 15 that lawmakers were mediating as a dispute continued with the region's leadership after opposition supporters stormed the local parliament over a controversial proposed deal with Moscow.
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