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Police in Moscow have detained and beaten opposition politicians, along with protesters, on July 27 in an attempt to disperse a demonstration against the refusal of election officials to register several opposition figures as candidates in municipal elections. (Current Time)
Moscow District Councilwoman Aleksandra Parushina, from the opposition A Just Russia party, says she was struck in the head by police who "brutally" dispersed protesters near Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin's office on July 27. (Current Time)
Graffiti artists have descended on the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for an illegal street-art festival. No one knows how many artists took part in the unofficial, guerrilla-style event and many participated anonymously.
Russian opposition activists are trying to run for seats on Moscow's city council but they say they are being blocked getting on the ballot by authorities. One prominent would-be candidate took her protest into election commission headquarters. After midnight, she was shown the door.
There's little work to be found in the dying villages of northwest Russia's Solovetsky Islands. But there's a rich crop of kelp just under the surface of the White Sea, and the farmers who harvest it say it's a tough but viable business.
Ukrainian voters had high expectations after appearing to give President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's party an unprecedented majority in parliament to tackle corruption and end the war against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy promised "victory over corruption" after his political party was on course to win a majority in the new parliament. Zelenskiy is a former actor and he has invited a start-up party led by Ukraine’s biggest pop-music star to begin coalition talks.
Five years ago, on July 17, 2014, flight MH17 was shot down over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. In the Dutch city of Hilversum, home to 15 of the victims, residents have planted memorial gardens of sunflowers grown from seeds gathered near the crash site.
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has upheld a law that equates communism to Nazism and bans the dissemination of its symbols, a law that has prompted angry protests from Moscow.
Russians wanting to impress their followers with vacation shots on social media can spend a fortune getting to a tropical paradise, or just find their way to a toxic waste dump in Siberia.
A murder case against three sisters who killed their abusive father in Moscow has sparked a nationwide debate over Russia's treatment of domestic violence.
When people are accused of misdeeds in Chechnya, some relatives publicly denounce their own kin in an apparent bid to save themselves from retribution.
He wears a sailor's hat and general's epaulettes, but it's enough to pass himself off as a traffic cop in Kyrgyzstan's busy capital.
Flooding in the Siberian region of Irkutsk has left over a dozen dead and and over a dozen missing, according to the Russian emergency services. Thousands have been evacuated from flood-hit areas and a state of emergency has been declared in the region.
Russian officials have raised the official number of dead from flooding in the southern Siberian region of Irkutsk to 18.
A Russian activist has compared care units in the country to gulags. Nyuta Federmesser, of the Vera Hospice Charity Fund, has visited psychiatric units and orphanages in 20 Russian regions and was so appalled that she says those hindering reform are advocating genocide.
This spring, a march in Bishkek marked International Women's Day by calling for equality for all -- including LGBT people. Members of the LGBT community say it marked a turning point in the fight for equal rights in Kyrgyzstan, but they describe ongoing battles with threats and job discrimination.
Russian-backed separatists from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region have released four Ukrainian citizens from captivity in Minsk. The freed men were transported from the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to the Belarusian capital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree suspending all direct flights between Russia and Georgia from July 8. The ban follows nights of protests in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, after a Russian lawmaker gave a speech from the speaker's chair of the Georgian parliament.
A Ukrainian rock star is moving back into politics. Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, frontman of the band Okean Elzy, has launched a new anti-corruption party called Holos (Voice) ahead of July's parliamentary elections. Vakarchuk was previously elected to parliament in 2007, but resigned after a year.
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