Timofei Rozhansky is a Current Time correspondent in Moscow.
Many Russian election observers charge that organized, compulsory, group voting by public employees and military personnel were one of the largest voting violations in Russia's September 17-19, 2021 parliamentary-regional elections. Current Time talked with apparent group voters in downtown Moscow.
Correspondent Timofei Rozhansky investigates the apparent use of pens with disappearing ink at polling station no. 3148 in the city of Khimki, outside of Moscow.
Thousands of Russians took to the streets the evening of April 21, 2021 to urge the government to allow jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny access to private physicians and, ultimately, to release him from prison. Current Time spoke with protesters in Moscow about their views.
They come from Ukraine, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan -- and they have been deported from Russia for joining peaceful protests in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. They are now divided from their Russian wives and children.
For a few days, the small Russian town of Pokrov, 100 kilometers east of Moscow, thought it was hosting jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. His prison turned out to be in the village of Kolchugino, but the opinions heard in Pokrov illustrate how deep is Russia's divide over Navalny.
Armenian opposition members questioned for allegedly organizing protests in defiance of Armenia’s military curfew claim that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government has been using the ban to stamp out criticism of its controversial Nagorno-Karabakh truce with Azerbaijan and Russia.
Roughly two weeks after the end of fighting with Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjoining territories, hundreds of Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian residents are slowly starting to return home from Armenia.
As the dust settled on the fourth straight evening of mass protests in Belarus over a disputed election, harrowing reports of ill-treatment and the torture of detainees are emerging. And relatives seeking information about their missing loved ones are being met with shrugs and smiles from police.
The Moscow Region's government has paid millions for this new facility, built by Azerbaijani-Russian businessman Araz Agalarov, but to what effect for COVID-19 patients?
With 199 confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of a population of roughly 142 million, Russia might appear, at first glance, to be faring relatively well amidst the coronavirus pandemic. To date, only one death has occurred. Some 143,519 tests for the virus have been run to date. But in Moscow, which accounts for most of the infections, Current Time correspondent Timofei Rozhansky found that getting that test is far from straightforward.
Timofei Rozhansky spoke with Moscow City Council deputy Ilya Yashin, Nemtsov’s colleague in the Solidarity movement, about why the official investigation could not complete these tasks, and, also, about how Nemtsov’s death affected Russia’s political opposition to President Vladimir Putin.
