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'A Sniper Will Kill You': Mother And Son Recall Terror Of Beslan Siege

Fifteen years ago, militants with ties to the insurgency in Chechnya stormed a school in Beslan, southern Russia, taking more than 1,200 children and adults hostage. For a brief moment, a mother and her young son were at the center of the crisis, as she volunteered to act as a messenger between the militants and Russian forces.

Moscow: Courts Reject Government Attempts to Scrap Parental Rights For Attending Protests

Protesters Again March In Moscow, Defying Authorities

Demonstrators estimated to number in the low thousands again defied authorities on August 31 and marched in central Moscow, ignoring officials' warnings and pressing demands to let independent candidates run in upcoming city council elections.

Moscow Protesters Shout Down Russian State TV Journalist

In a video shot at a protest rally in Moscow on August 31, protesters surrounded a correspondent for the state-owned Rossiya 1 television channel, chanting "Propaganda" and "Stop lying."

Sobol At Moscow Protest: 'Repression Will Not Work'

Thousands of Russians marched in central Moscow as opposition activists defied authorities' warnings and pushed ahead with a protest focused on upcoming city council elections. The August 31 action was the latest in a series of confrontations between liberal activists and Moscow city authorities -- and the Kremlin. A leading opposition figure, Lyubov Sobol, speaking to journalists during the protest, said that repression will not work and also called on Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to resign.

Amidst Criticism Of Crackdowns, Moscow Police Try Out Hands-Off Approach At Protest

'Enough Spirit' To Believe In Change: How The Moscow Protests Inspired One Kyrgyz Artist

Though over 3,700 kilometers away, TV scenes of Moscow protesters struggling with riot police during a Saturday, July 27 rally for the registration of opposition and independent candidates in upcoming city council elections resonated with 35-year-old Kyrgyz illustrator Tatyana Zelenskaya.

Emotions Raw As Beslan Remembers Massacre, 15 Years Later

Some of the teachers who survived the Beslan massacre are still working, and still haunted by the days in 2004 when 334 people were killed in their school.

Reform-Ready Ukraine Gets A New Prime Minister And Cabinet

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

Ukraine Convenes New Parliament Dominated By Presidential Party

'This Is Our Forest': Russians Seek Answers After Woodlands Destroyed

Residents of Russian villages near the Gulf of Finland are fighting against the construction of a huge port for coal shipments, and the destruction of a nearby forest which has already begun.

Pyotr And Yelena Khomsky: Moscow Threatens Parental Rights To 'Intimidate' Protesters

Ukraine-Russia Ties

Russian Journalist Vyshinsky Freed Pending Trial In Kyiv

A Ukrainian court ruled on August 28 to release Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky pending trial on charges of high treason. The head of Russia's state-run RIA Novosti's office in Ukraine, Vyshinsky was arrested in May 2018 amid accusations that the news agency was involved in an "information war."

Russian Couple Threatened With Losing Their Children For Attending Rally Vow To Fight On

A Russian couple threatened by prosecutors with losing their three children for bringing them to a protest rally in Moscow have called their prosecution "a lawless attempt to frighten all the activists."

The Baltic Way At 30: Remembering The 'World's First Flash Mob'

Thirty years ago, on August 23, 1989, approximately 2 million people in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined hands to form a human chain more than 600 kilometers long to show their desire for independence from the Soviet Union. Current Time spoke with organizers and participants of the Baltic Way to find out how they remember this event today.

The Baltic Way At 30: Remembering ‘The World’s First Flash Mob’

Thirty years ago, on August 23, 1989, approximately 2 million people in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined hands to form a human chain more than 600 kilometers long to show their desire for independence from the Soviet Union. Current Time spoke with organizers and participants of the Baltic Way to find out how they remember this event today.

Russia's Zimorodok: Using Art As A Form Of Protest

A Russian artist who goes by the pseudonym Zimorodok creates collages that combine famous works of art with shots of riot police making detentions at unsanctioned rallies for the registration of independent and opposition candidates in Moscow’s September 8 city council elections. “You have to react somehow,” he said of the hundreds of detentions – often without cause, rights activists say – that have occurred since mid-July.

Shooting A Snow Leopard In Siberia -- Legally

Conservationists blamed poachers for destroying some of the remaining snow leopards in Russia's Siberian Altai Republic. Now, they are being paid to capture images of the rare species to help save them.