This seven-episode series by Russian journalist Andrey Loshak takes a look at the development of the Russian Internet, or RuNet, and how it has changed over time. Watch: currenttime.tv/runet
Thirty-six-year-old mail carrier Madina's profession, departure from an abusive marriage, and even high heels and short skirts appear to go against the grain of what many consider “appropriate” for women in conservative Chechnya, but she shows no sign of backing down.
Children in Kyrgyzstan rank as some of the most vulnerable in Central Asia. With their parents often working, kids in one slum in the capital, Bishkek, tend to just fend for themselves.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr., one of Russia's most prominent journalists and a pioneer of independent post-Soviet television, has died at the age of 59 in Moscow.
A Russian physics professor spends his free time as a volunteer high in the trees of Yekaterinburg, saving animals that have gone astray.
This March, 51-year-old Aleksandr Gabyshev left Yakutsk in Russia's Far East to walk 8,000 kilometers to the Russian capital and rally opposition to President Vladimir Putin, whom he calls a demon. So far, no media reports suggest that he has been hindered.
He wears a sailor's hat and the epaulettes of a general, but it's enough to pass himself off as a traffic cop in Kyrgyzstan's busy capital.
Flooding in the Siberian region of Irkutsk has left over a dozen dead and and over a dozen missing, according to the Russian emergency services. Thousands have been evacuated from flood-hit areas and a state of emergency has been declared in the region.
Francis Savinovskikh made headlines in Russia when the authorities took two foster children away, citing concerns that their upbringing was not "traditional." At the time, Savinovskikh had the name Yulia and didn't accept being a man.
Poorly paid Russian health-care workers are pushing for higher wages and forming local branches of a union with the backing of anti-Kremlin activist Aleksei Navalny.
After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Stas Borodin, 33, lost a good job in Moscow, his wife left him, and he was forced to return to his native Smolensk. He didn't give up, but instead started a new life and became a well-known DJ in the city.
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