Fifteen years ago, militants with ties to the insurgency in Chechnya stormed a school in Beslan, southern Russia, taking more than 1,200 children and adults hostage. For a brief moment, a mother and her young son were at the center of the crisis, as she volunteered to act as a messenger between the militants and Russian forces.
Residents of Russian villages near the Gulf of Finland are fighting against the construction of a huge port for coal shipments, and the destruction of a nearby forest which has already begun.
Women’s soccer has enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years and, now, women in the Kyrgyz village of Kok-Tash, just north of the Uzbek border, are getting the chance to go after some goals, too. Kyrgyzstan’s Women’s Football Federation encourages young girls to play soccer, but, in rural areas, where women’s roles often center around the home, adult female soccer players are far from the norm -- at least, for now.
Moscow activists say a new road project next to a Soviet-era nuclear waste site could pose a radioactive risk.
Thirty years ago, on August 23, 1989, approximately 2 million people in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined hands to form a human chain more than 600 kilometers long to show their desire for independence from the Soviet Union. Current Time spoke with organizers and participants of the Baltic Way to find out how they remember this event today.
Conservationists blamed poachers for destroying some of the remaining snow leopards in Russia's Siberian Altai Republic. Now, they are being paid to capture images of the rare species to help save them.
The derelict Usolyekhimprom chemical plant contains tanks of chlorine, mercury, and other deadly substances spread across hundreds of hectares in Russia's Irkutsk region. During a visit this July, the head of Russia's environmental safety agency warned that the site poses a potential environmental disaster on the scale of Chernobyl.
Children in Kyrgyzstan rank as some of the most vulnerable in Central Asia. With their parents often working, kids in one slum in the capital, Bishkek, tend to just fend for themselves.
Graffiti artists have descended on the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for an illegal street-art festival. No one knows how many artists took part in the unofficial, guerrilla-style event and many participated anonymously.
There's little work to be found in the dying villages of northwest Russia's Solovetsky Islands. But there's a rich crop of kelp just under the surface of the White Sea, and the farmers who harvest it say it's a tough but viable business. (From Vadim Kondakov's film The Gatherer (Ловец).)
A Kazakh man discovers a Stalin-era mass grave in his backyard.
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