The Gamov Peninsula is an isolated region in Russia's Far East , with influences from neighboring Japan, China, and North and South Korea. But the hardy few who live there cherish their solitude and are glad to be off the authorities' radar.
Ukraine is one of the few countries in the world that allows commercial surrogacy. But when something goes wrong, human lives hang in the balance, and critics say the business should be stopped or at least regulated.
An acid leak from an abandoned mine has turned a local river red, devastating local flora and marine life in Russia's Ural Mountains.
A Siberian village, Tayezhnyy, was swamped with trash when Ilona Domracheva moved there. She didn't like what she saw and, in a short time, she mobilized the community to help clean up. She may have won a battle, but the war on waste goes on.
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.
Little has changed over the past century for timber raftsmen in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region, who still rely on the same working methods that their grandfathers used.
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.
Russia's experimental rock band IC3PEAK is known for laying bare millennials' malaise. Filmmaker Andrey Loshak documented how that reputation led to a 2018 standoff with police over the right to perform.
A shocking video spread online has highlighted the problem of domestic violence amid lockdowns in Central Asia. In Kyrgyzstan, an activist says women have an "ingrained distrust" in the authorities, while a Kazakh crisis center is renting apartments for victims it can't house.
Residents of dilapidated, Soviet-era, communal apartments in the Russian city of St. Petersburg are stuck in lockdown without a room for bathing or showering. They usually use bathhouses to wash, but those have been closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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