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.
Nearly 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation ranks as the largest opposition threat to Russia's ruling United Russia party, according to opinion polls. But desire for a robust welfare state characterizes supporters of both sides.
The Russian government has entered into a showdown with the United States over whether U.S. tech giants Apple and Google followed a “political order” to maintain access to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Smart Voting app ahead of Russia’s September 17-19 parliamentary elections.
Russia heads to the polls in parliamentary elections September 17-19 amid a crackdown on opposition figures, independent media, and nongovernmental groups. We asked Russians: Do you think you have a real choice in this election?
Golos, an independent vote-monitoring movement in Russia, was labeled a "foreign agent" by the government just a month before the country's parliamentary elections. Kremlin critics see the designation as a way to hinder the work of organizations the government does not like.
Mainstream Russian TV outlets initially commiserated with the U.S. after news broke about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But, as media came more under the Kremlin's control, conspiracy theories began to replace the facts.
Ukrainian pilot Veronika Borisova had once led Afghanistan's first all-female flight crew, but on August 15, she had a very different assignment -- piloting the first evacuation flight from Kabul to Kyiv.
For decades, Russian public schoolteachers have been asked to serve on the election commission for their schools' polling stations, and expected not to buck the ruling party. But some teachers resist their supervisors’ expectations -- even at the cost of their jobs.
The centuries-old town of Sebezh sits near the borders of both Belarus and Latvia in Russia's western Pskov region. Residents are proud of their well-preserved old houses and rich history, but they've seen little development in a struggling town that was once called the "window to Europe."
Generations of children have grown up in Kyrgyzstan without parents who leave the country to work, mostly in Russia. Aigerim is 9 years old and lives with her grandmother. She dreams of joining her mom, who went to Moscow two years ago.
At the end of the 1980s, protest movements across the Soviet Union sprung up, with people in the constituent republics calling for independence. Fed up with the corrupt Soviet regime, protesters demanded an end to Soviet rule and a more equitable society.
Listen to Afghan reporter Liza Karimi describe the events of August 23, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan, as thousands desperately try to leave the country, and armed resistance against the Taliban persists in Panjshir Province.
Current Time is publishing a daily series of audio diaries by Kabul-based freelance journalist Liza Karimi. The diaries provide an Afghan perspective on how the country is changing since the Taliban’s August 15, 2021 takeover of Kabul.
A Telegram video depicts the interaction of Afghans and Uzbeks after the landing of a few Afghan helicopters in Uzbekistan on August 14-15, as Afghan military personnel fled Taliban forces nearing Kabul.
In this subtitled audio diary, Current Time reporter Liza Karimi shared how Kabul is changing after the Taliban's August 15, 2021 takeover, what people are discussing, and what she herself is experiencing.
Russia's Justice Ministry on August 20 declared the Dozhd television channel (TV Rain) a "foreign agent," part of what Kremlin opponents say is a crackdown on critical media before parliamentary elections next month.
Current Time TV’s freelance correspondent in Kabul, Liza Karimi, reports having been threatened on August 17 by unknown males by both phone and in writing.
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