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.
Meet the three women striving to put an end to 26 years of rule by authoritarian Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka -- at great personal risk.
In the Sulak canyon of Russia's Republic of Daghestan, farmers rely on a system of makeshift, hand-powered cable cars to transport their produce across a river.
A decade has passed since ethnic violence tore through towns and cities in southern Kyrgyzstan, killing 470 people according to an international report. RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service and Current Time talked with ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz people in Osh, the city where the violence started, to get a sense of how people feel about life today and about the events of June 2010.
Within Current Time’s coverage zone, government-allied media have often propagandized both the peaceful U.S. protests against George Floyd’s death and the street unrest that followed. To let viewers decide for themselves about these events, Current Time spoke with Skorykh, a Russian speaker, who shared his photographs and impressions of the initial demonstrations and disturbances in Minneapolis.
The native Nenets reindeer herders of Russia's Far North are determined to preserve their traditional way of life despite population shifts, market changes, and perceived threats to their ancestral territory. But as reindeer herders start to vanish, this community faces a daunting tussle with time.
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.
Nazi occupation and Soviet repression decimated the Izhorian people, a tiny ethnic minority from northwest Russia. Now just hundreds remain, but efforts are being made to revive their language and culture.
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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