Aleksei Aleksandrov is a reporter for Current Time TV.
Moscow activists say a new road project next to a Soviet-era nuclear waste site could pose a radioactive risk.
In an interview with Current Time, Russian journalist Irina Gordienko, widow of reporter Orkhan Dzhemal, explained why she believes the Russian government is stonewalling on its investigation into the 2018 murder of Dzhemal and two other Russian journalists in the Central African Republic.
In the last five years, Russian security forces have arrested dozens of Crimean Tatars on charges of terrorism. But international rights watchdogs say the accusations are intended to silence criticism. To find out more, Current Time spoke with some of the families of those arrested.
With its vast oil and natural gas resources and centralized rule, Kazakhstan might appear, at first glance, to have no qualms about stability. But protests by hundreds of outraged women demanding a reform of the country’s social-benefits system have underlined potential vulnerabilities, observers say.
