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.
Some of the teachers who survived the Beslan massacre are still working, and still haunted by the days in 2004 when 334 people were killed in their school.
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.
A 72-year-old woman in Belarus has racked up more than $16,000 in fines for taking part in decades of demonstrations and protests, many alone and holding the banned Belarusian first republic flag.
Lenin. Trotsky. Gorky. When Russia's revolutionary A-listers were conjured up from the dead by a group of Soviet spiritists, the secret police took notice.
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has upheld a law that equates communism to Nazism and bans the dissemination of its symbols, a law that has prompted angry protests from Moscow.
A Kazakh man discovers a Stalin-era mass grave in his backyard.
In Georgia, members of a small Christian sect called the Dukhobors preserve the faith they brought with them from Russia in centuries past. Their forebears were persecuted and exiled for their unconventional beliefs and refusal to serve in the army.
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (2005-2010) discusses with Current Time's Iryna Romaliiska what he believes should be the top policy concerns for Ukraine’s next president, assesses the chances for peace with Russia, and explains why he has no regrets about his time in office.
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