Kirill Belov-Belikov is a video editor at Current Time.
Russia's most famous political prisoner spends most of his time in a 2.5-by-3-meter isolation cell. Supporters of Aleksei Navalny have created a traveling exhibition complete with a mock-up of the cell. It's currently reminding tourists and locals on Prague's Old Town Square about Navalny's plight.
Prague and other Czech cities are donating old trams and buses to war-torn Ukraine where public transit systems across the country have been damaged by Russian bombing.
Due to the invasion of Ukraine, Czech universities are banning students from Russia and Belarus from certain "critical" subjects. To continue their studies, some students write letters about their opposition to the war, while others switch to "noncritical" programs.
The Moscow Metro has touted a new facial-recognition payment system as the first mass-scale use of a technology that will bring greater convenience to people's everyday lives. But its launch in Russia has raised concerns about the system's possible misuse for surveillance purposes.
