The makers of a new Kyrgyz movie say they were denied a distribution license after a film commission objected to scenes showing corrupt government officials. Motherland, by director Mederbek Jalilov, tells the story of a conflict between Kyrgyz villagers and a Chinese investor.
Belarusian presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a homemaker who joined the presidential race after election officials declined to register her husband, popular vlogger Syarhey Tsikhanouski, as a candidate, spoke on August 3 to Current Time news anchor Iryna Romaliiska in Minsk.
Two protest movements are 9,000 kilometers apart: one in Russia and one in Belarus -- but they're united by their desire for basic democratic norms. Current Time reporters tracked down the protesters in Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East, who reached out to their counterparts in Belarus.
An exiled challenger to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says the strongman will not use force if large crowds take to the streets to challenge the results of the upcoming election.
A critic of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka who last month fled the country along with his children after his and others' candidacies were rejected for next week's presidential election has reportedly left Russia for neighboring Ukraine.
It was Day 23 on August 2 of ongoing demonstrations in support of dismissed Khabarovsk regional Governor Sergei Furgal. The protesters gathered outside the regional administration building in the Russian Far East city, chanting Furgal's surname and the slogan, "We will come tomorrow."
Thousands marched across the center of Russia’s Far Eastern city on August 1 protesting the arrest of popular Governor Sergei Furgal, mocking a man appointed by President Vladimir Putin to replace him, and calling for the end of Putin's rule. (Current Time)
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