Funerals were held on both sides of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border after armed clashes on April 28-29 claimed more than 50 lives. With a cease-fire in place since May 1, evacuees have begun returning home, but many have found their houses damaged or destroyed by fighting and looting.
In this February 8, 2021 interview, film director Olga Abramchik, a multimedia producer for Current Time TV, discusses her documentary on Belarus' August 2020 presidential election protests, We Didn't Know Each Other Until This Summer.
On the night of April 28, in the center of St. Petersburg, a mural depicting Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny appeared on the side of a building, with the inscription "Hero of a New Time." It took only hours before police arrived and the authorities ordered that it be painted over.
In Kyrgyzstan, five directors are making a series of short films about the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the country in the spring and summer of 2020. Ten different stories will tell about how ordinary people experienced quarantine and how the local health-care system was unready for the outbreak.
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.
With unemployment in Georgia now at around 20 percent of the country’s workforce, Current Time’s Zviad Mchedlishvili spoke with Georgian jobseekers about why they are opting to go abroad to work during the coronavirus pandemic.
In an interview with Current Time’s Newsday, Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, responds to her suspended sentence for trespassing at the residence of a supposed FSB employee allegedly involved in Navalny’s 2020 poisoning.
Current Time has visited the intensive-care unit of a COVID-19 hospital in Kyiv, where a recent surge in infections means every single bed is full. Many patients arrive in critical condition and require mechanical ventilation of their lungs.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has pledged that 27-year-old Aizada Kanatbekova’s recent murder will be the last in Kyrgyzstan’s “history” of bride kidnappings. But how Japarov, plans to end abductions for forced marriages remains unclear.
Sergei Sazanakov was hunting in Russia's Khakassia region when an accident left him trapped in the snow overnight. He lost his lower legs to frostbite, and later had to fight for his children in court after his wife left him. But Sazanakov has learned how to run his farm and care for his family.
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