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After weeks of protests, environmental activists in Russia's central Bashkortostan region have won a battle to protect Kushtau Hill from mining. The Bashkir Soda Company had planned to mine limestone from the site. But activists say the hill is a natural treasure and home to many endangered species.
Russian actor Mikhail Yefremov, an outspoken Kremlin critic, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for killing a person while driving under the influence of alcohol. Crowds of Yefremov's supporters gathered outside the Presnensky district court in Moscow September 8, as he was escorted inside.
For the first time in the 26-year rule of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, protests against him have been large-scale, nationwide, and enduring. But, after an unprecedented month of demonstrations, he still shows no signs of bowing to demands for his resignation.
Two attackers threw a glass jar with an unknown chemical liquid into an office housing the independent political coalition supported by opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Russia's third-largest city, Novosibirsk.
Minsk residents have rallied around a cafe in the Belarusian capital after its windows and doors were smashed by security forces during protests.
Berlin’s Charite hospital, where Aleksei Navalny is being treated, says the condition of the opposition politician "has improved."
The wife of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who is currently in a medically induced coma in Berlin after being diagnosed with poisoning, has slammed a leading Russian physician as being little more than a stooge for President Vladimir Putin.
He was a career diplomat who was once a foreign policy adviser to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, but he then became the first -- and only -- Belarusian ambassador to support protests against his boss. Now, Ihar Leshchenya is at his dacha near Minsk; hoping to evade arrest.
A 30-year-old Tajik lawyer has been questioned by security officers after he announced his intention to run for president in the October 11 election.
A Belarusian diplomat who resigned after he openly supported ongoing protests against official results of the August 9 presidential poll that handed victory to incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka says the uprising occurred for the simple reason that people are tired of having their votes "ignored."
The mother of a Belarusian man who died after being detained by security officials is demanding a criminal inquiry into his death. Alyaksandr Vikhor, 25, died in a hospital in Homel.
What are the chances of survival for Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny? Ismail Efendiyev from the European Association of Poison Centers and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT) says a tiny dose of Novichok can be fatal.
Russian actor Mikhail Yefremov, an outspoken Kremlin critic who is charged with killing a person while driving under the influence of alcohol, has admitted his guilt.
The western city of Hrodna has been a microcosm of the political crisis that has engulfed Belarus after protests erupted over a presidential election widely seen as rigged.
As his security forces have beaten protesters and detained thousands, authoritarian Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has repeatedly appeared on TV hurling insults at those who brave brutal repression to call for him to go.
Belarusian authorities are turning up the heat on people protesting a presidential election widely seen as rigged. Unlike the previous mass use of riot police, which appeared to fan the flames of protest, the new tactic appears to be targeted arrests and intimidation.
Belarusian state TV switched the audio of protesters chanting to make it appear that the crowd was heckling an opposition leader -- when, in fact, the demonstrators were chanting against authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, demanding that he leave office.
Nina Bahinskaya cuts a frail but resolute figure amid the crowds protesting the presidential election results in Belarus that are widely seen as rigged. She's been a regular feature at various demonstrations since 1988.
As hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets to protest an election widely seen as rigged, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka armed himself and donned body armor in images shown on state TV. Analysts discuss where the political standoff may be headed.
People marched through the center of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on August 23, two weeks after the country's disputed presidential election. An estimated 100,000 joined the protest against result of the vote, in which the incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory despite irregularities.
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