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People in Russia's Belgorod border region have been at the forefront of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine since the very beginning. Nerves were already fraying even before last week's cross-border raid by militants aligned with Ukraine’s government.
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, fired archpriest Leonid Kalinin, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s expert council on church art, architecture, and restoration for "obstructing" the transfer of the historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the church from a museum in Moscow.
Civilians caught near the front line in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region continue to be evacuated. Serhiy Siryak and his wife, Tamara, from the town of Stepnohirsk, finally decided to leave when their house was destroyed by Russian shelling.
Kyrgyz athlete Jalaldin Abduvaliev is training for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. The two-time triathlon world champion overcomes a visual disability to bike, swim, and run in long-distance competitions.
Pro-Kremlin journalist Konstantin Dolgov was fired on May 25, a day after he published the full version of an interview with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner private mercenary group.
These are some of the men who launched an armed incursion from Ukraine into Russia's Belgorod region on May 22. Ukraine has denied any involvement in the incident. Note: This video was updated to reflect errors in translation. A reference to Russia's FSB has also been corrected to the Russian Army.
Russia has postponed an international air show indefinitely for the first time in three decades, Russian media reported on May 25, citing sources in the aviation industry.
As spring comes to an end in Kyrgyzstan, local cowboys must drive their horses high into the mountains in search of greener pastures. During the three-day journey, the men hardly get a moments rest as they guide over 150 horses along busy highways and up the sides of ridged mountain slopes.
Ukrainian forces say the battle for the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region is ongoing despite Russian claims they now control the city. RFE/RL's Maryan Kushnir watched Ukrainian artillery on the outskirts of Bakhmut firing BM-21 Grad missiles at Russian positions.
A reserve colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces says that fighting in Russia's Belgorod region was a "combat reconnaissance mission" launched by units of Russian citizens that have been fighting on Kyiv's side since 2014. The Ukrainian government has said it has nothing to do with the incident.
A Ukrainian Army spokesman said on May 22 that Russian forces walked straight into a "trap" in Bakhmut, with Ukrainian troops advancing on the flanks of the town poised to encircle them.
Noted Russian actor Aleksei Panin, who since 2020 has lived in Spain, has been added to Russia's wanted list on unspecified charges.
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.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned some 500 U.S. citizens from entering the country, including former President Barack Obama, in retaliation for the latest series of sanctions announced by the United States against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
The Greenpeace environmental group said it is shutting down its Russia operation after the Kremlin declared it an "undesirable" organization amid the government's ongoing crackdown on civil society and independent organizations.
Hundreds gathered at the main airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 19 to protest the return of direct flights from Russia. Georgian opposition activists protested against any warming of relations with the Kremlin because of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the 2008 war against Georgia.
The Furia, a modern, high-tech Ukrainian-made drone, makes nocturnal surveillance flights over Russian positions around Bakhmut. The reconnaissance craft with night-vision cameras provides useful data on Russian armored vehicle movements, helping to ensure accurate Ukrainian artillery strikes.
A Ukrainian antiaircraft team operating near the eastern front line says it is bringing down Russian kamikaze drones. The components are analyzed by intelligence experts to provide useful tactical data. Ukrainian soldiers can detect a Russian drone at a distance by its distinctive sound, they say.
Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka has appeared in public for the first time in six days, looking and sounding ill, amid swirling speculation about his health. He's held a tight grip on power since 1994. What does the future hold if he dies?
Empty streets, bombed-out buildings, and craters the width of a bus -- none will drive out the last residents of Novomykhaylivka, a Ukrainian village on the edge of the front line. Russian shelling has all but destroyed the settlement, but a few still tend to their gardens and a solitary goat.
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