Russian street artist Boris Makarov, alias Bob Makar, has taken a spray can to gray walls in his hometown of Dubna, north of Moscow. He says he wants to brighten up people's lives. Even the local municipal head likes his work.
A woman held hostage by Chechen separatists has spoken about it on camera for the first time, 25 years after a five-day siege that left some 150 people dead in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk.
The Russian Urals village of Kuliga has no new hospitals, no hazmat uniforms for doctors, no high-tech equipment, and no good roads for ambulances, but, still, they are fighting the coronavirus pandemic. For physician Nadezhda Kasatkina, who has worked here for 34 years, teamwork and sheer persistence are the only ways to get through this crisis.
A 97-year-old Russian World War II veteran has been inspired by the fund-raising efforts of the UK's Captain Tom Moore during the coronavirus pandemic She is posting war stories online every day to raise money for the families of Russian medics who have died fighting COVID-19.
They may have grandchildren and occasionally garden. But Kyiv’s Ageless Shooters also have a devastating ability to play CounterStrike: Global Offensive. And these Ukrainian seniors, filmed before Ukraine's COVID-19 lockdown, are not going to let stereotypes about the elderly get in their way.
A car mechanic in Siberia has found a new calling: giving cows pedicures. And it has helped reverse a fall in milk production at a local dairy.
For the past few years, Vika, a former TV journalist, has run a lively coffee bar in Minsk's Komarovka market. Always ready to chat, she works 12-hour days and then goes home to write a novel "about my pain."
People around the world have learned the virtues of recycling, but a craftsman in Kyiv goes much further. He upcycles discarded furniture into musical instruments.
It’s not often that a septuagenarian slips on a swimsuit to head into Siberia‘s snow and ice. But for 70-year-old champion ice swimmer Zinaida Bulygina, swimming in a frozen river is all about embracing life.
Latvia attracts the most Chinese investment of any Baltic member of the European Union, but that does not always mean that Chinese migrants find it easy to settle here. Following a 2014 clampdown on visas, many have left. Chinese restaurateur and hotel owner Tao Ma, who came to Latvia more than 20 years ago, has integrated into Latvian society, but says that doing business is still a challenge.
Even in his 90s, Ukrainian Yakov Lomaka remembers the German for his ID number from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration-extermination camp. He has reason to. Those camp inmates who could not remember their ID numbers in German were denied food and hit, he says. Current Time spoke with Lomaka about his memories of Auschwitz ahead of the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation on January 27, 1945.
Seventy-five years ago today, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration-extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. An estimated 1.1 million people had died there by the war’s end. For Soviet tank crewman David Dushman, the condition of the camp’s “unfortunate” inmates was a shock. Many of those prisoners, like Vera Kriegal Grossman, see their survival as a victory in itself.
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