Neil Bowdler

Nobody's Child: Inside Ukraine's Controversial Surrogate Adoption Industry

Ukraine is one of the few countries in the world that allows commercial surrogacy. But when something goes wrong, human lives hang in the balance, and critics say the business should be stopped or at least regulated.

Funeral Fears Rise In Russia As Mourners For COVID-19 Victims Go Online

Locked Down Without A Bath In St. Petersburg

Thousands Rally In Moscow To Mark Nemtsov Killing Anniversary

Kyrgyz Workers Hunt For Coal Scraps To Survive Winter

Ukraine Turns To Germany To Transform Troubled Railways

Ukraine's troubled railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and Deutsche Bahn have signed a 10-year memorandum of cooperation under which the German operator will plan a way forward for the state operator. Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk says it could lead to Deutsche Bahn jointly managing Ukrainian railways. Current Time sent two reporters to compare and contrast regional rail services in both countries.

Surviving Siberia: The Hard, Cold Winters Of Yakutia

Surviving Siberia: The Hard, Cold Winters Of Yakutia

What Russians Want In 2020

Slovak Relives Epic Balloon Flight To Freedom

A Woman's Heartbreak Over Brother On Death Row In Belarus

The sister of a convicted Belarusian murderer has told Current Time of her heartbreak after the country's Supreme Court upheld Viktar Paulau's death sentence for the killing of two elderly women. Paulau is one of three men sentenced to death this year in Belarus, which is the only European country still using capital punishment.

Kyrgyzstan Police Embrace Chinese Face Recognition Tech

Families Say Young Tajiks Are Grabbed And Forced Into The Army

Shaman On 8,000-Kilometer Trek 'To Topple Putin'

The Guerrilla Graffiti Festival In Yekaterinburg

Rock Star Gives Voice To Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Party

A Ukrainian rock star is moving back into politics. Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, frontman of the band Okean Elzy, has launched a new anti-corruption party called Holos (Voice) ahead of July's parliamentary elections. Vakarchuk was previously elected to parliament in 2007, but resigned after a year.

'A Person, Not An Invalid': Smolensk DJ Defies His Diagnosis

'I Saw The Executioner': Preserving The Names Of Stalin's Polish Victims

The Moscow-based rights group, Memorial, is to publish a book naming more than 6,000 executed Polish prisoners buried in 1940 in the village of Mednoye, near the Russian city of Tver. The killings were part of a mass execution of nearly 22,000 Polish officers ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

Wartime Barracks Still A Squalid Home to Russia's Poor

All Creatures Wild And Small: A Kyrgyz Man's Rescue Mission