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Ukrainian Oligarch Kolomoyskiy Arrested In Fraud, Money-Laundering Case

Title: Ukrainian Oligarch Kolomoyskiy Arrested In Fraud, Money-Laundering Case
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Influential Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskiy arrived at the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv on September 2 as a suspect in a fraud and money-laundering case. The judge ordered the arrest of the billionaire and said he should be kept in pretrial detention for 60 days.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-oligarch-court-arrest/32576614.html

Bosnian Serb Protesters Wave Putin Portraits

Title: Bosnian Serb Protesters Wave Putin Portraits
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Rallies in support of two Bosnian Serb leaders took place at four different locations in Bosnia-Herzegovina on September 1. Protesters in East Sarajevo displayed portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The demonstrations decried federal charges against Milorad Dodik and Milos Lukic.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/bosnia-russia-putin-protest/32575585.html

Soccer Builds Confidence, Skills For Ukrainian Veteran Amputees

Title: Soccer Builds Confidence, Skills For Ukrainian Veteran Amputees
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Twice a week, Ukrainian veterans who have lost limbs in Russia's war on the country gather for soccer games on Kyiv fields. As they practice using their bodies in new ways, they joke, work out, and share the communal experience of healing and returning to some sense of normalcy.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-football-soccer-amputee-veteran-russia-kyiv-therapy/32574664.html

Riot Erupts At Kyrgyzstan's Independence Day Sporting Event

Title: Riot Erupts At Kyrgyzstan's Independence Day Sporting Event
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Dozens of people were injured on August 31 after rioting broke out during a kok-boru tournament in Kyrgyzstan's Osh region to mark the country's independence day.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-osh-region-kok-boru-riot/32574548.html

Mobile Medical Unit Brings Care To Frontline Ukrainian Villages

Title: Mobile Medical Unit Brings Care To Frontline Ukrainian Villages
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Medical volunteers continue to travel to villages in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region to bring care to civilians near the front line. Current Time's Boris Sachalko reports.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/mobile-medical-unit-care-front-line-ukraine-villages-donbas/32574307.html

Iranian Protesters Post Dance Videos To Support Detained Singer

Title: Iranian Protesters Post Dance Videos To Support Detained Singer
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Female protesters in Iran are posting dance videos to support prominent Iranian pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi. He was arrested on August 28 following the release of an "illegal" song urging women to remove their mandatory head scarves.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protesters-dance-videos-detained-singer-/32573078.html

Jazz Fest Unites Music Fans In Divided Kosovo Town

Title: Jazz Fest Unites Music Fans In Divided Kosovo Town
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The ethnically divided town of Mitrovica in Kosovo is holding its first international jazz festival, running through September 2. The event is uniting music fans in a town that has been divided by tensions between ethnic Albanian and Serb citizens.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-mitrovica-jazz-richard-bona-festival-music-nishliu-divided/32571507.html

Detention, Torture, Murder: Life Under The Taliban For LGBT People

Title: Detention, Torture, Murder: Life Under The Taliban For LGBT People
Runtime: 4:11
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: LGBT activists say the return of the Taliban to power in 2021 in Afghanistan has resulted in discrimination, torture, and even murder. One gay man told RFE/RL that he had to quit school to protect his identity while another said he and his boyfriend were tortured by the Taliban.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-torture-murder-taliban-gay-lgbt/32571242.html

Forbidden No More? Ukrainian Lawmakers Propose Decriminalizing Porn

Title: Forbidden No More? Ukrainian Lawmakers Propose Decriminalizing Porn
Runtime: 3:21
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ukrainian parliament members want to abolish a 2001 law against pornography, saying the rules criminalize normal people and open the door to police corruption. Some 1,200 porn charges are filed every year and anyone with nude photos of someone on their phone is technically subject to prosecution.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-porn-legalize-criminal-police-bribery-corruption-fundraiser-teronlyfans-actors/32569943.html

Ukrainians Bid Farewell To Celebrated Pilot Who Died In Air Collision

Title: Ukrainians Bid Farewell To Celebrated Pilot Who Died In Air Collision
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ukraine held a memorial ceremony on August 29 for Andriy Pilshchikov, one of the three pilots who died in a midair collision while on a training mission over the Zhytomyr region.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-pilot-farewell-ceremony/32569916.html

'They Used Them As Cannon Fodder': The Migrants Sent From Prison In Russia To Death In Ukraine

Title: 'They Used Them As Cannon Fodder': The Migrants Sent From Prison In Russia To Death In Ukraine
Runtime: 6:37
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Many Central Asian migrants are among the estimated 50,000 prisoners who were sent from Russian jails by the Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine. While some volunteered with promises of early release, there are accounts that others were coerced to enlist.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/central-asia-migrants-prison-russia-death-ukraine-wagner/32568047.html

Ukrainian Military Clears Plane-Crash Debris

Title: Ukrainian Military Clears Plane-Crash Debris
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Soldiers came to the village of Sinhury in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region on August 26 to clear the debris of military planes that crashed a day earlier. Three pilots died as a result of the midair collision of two L-39 Albatros aircraft during a training flight.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-plane-crash-debris/32566739.html

Eyewitnesses Describe Ukrainian Military Air Crash

Title: Eyewitnesses Describe Ukrainian Military Air Crash
Runtime: 0:34
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Three Ukrainian Air Force pilots were killed as two L-39 planes collided in the air during a training flight on August 25, Ukrainian authorities have announced. On August 26, RFE/RL interviewed locals who had witnessed the crash in the village of Sinhury, in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-air-crash-witnesses/32566086.html

Ukrainian Anti-Tank Unit Estimates It's Destroyed $20 Million In Russian Armor

Title: Ukrainian Anti-Tank Unit Estimates It's Destroyed $20 Million In Russian Armor
Runtime: 2:53
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A Ukrainian anti-tank unit has been on the hunt for Russian armor using the Stuhna guided-rocket system to destroy military vehicles worth millions of dollars. According to Ukraine, Russia has lost over 4,000 tanks and 8,000 armed personnel carriers during the full-scale invasion.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-anti-tank-hunters-russian-stuhna-guided-rocket-armor-destruction-oryx/32564991.html

Lavrov Rudely Shuns Current Time Reporter's Question On Prigozhin

Title: Lavrov Rudely Shuns Current Time Reporter's Question On Prigozhin
Runtime: 0:37
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is attending the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, declined to comment on the reported death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Wagner mercenary group and instigator of a botched mutiny in Russia in late June. When asked by Current Time correspondent about his cooperation with Prigozhin, Lavrov shunned the reporter's question with a profane remark.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-foreign-minister-lavrov--prigozhin/32563357.html

Yevgeny Prigozhin: From ‘Putin’s Chef’ To Malcontent Mercenary

Title: Yevgeny Prigozhin: From ‘Putin’s Chef’ To Malcontent Mercenary
Runtime: 5:35
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led an armed rebellion in Russia, has presumably died in an air crash aged 62. The incident occurred two months after the mutiny. Prigozhin spent years in a Soviet jail, before becoming known as "Putin's chef" for growing rich off Kremlin catering contracts.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-prigozhin-obituary-ukraine/32561982.html

Ten Dead After Plane Crashes In Russia; Wagner Chief Prigozhin On Passenger List

Title: Ten Dead After Plane Crashes In Russia; Wagner Chief Prigozhin On Passenger List
Runtime: 0:32
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The chief of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was listed among the passengers of a private plane that crashed in Russia on August 23, killing all 10 onboard. Reuters shared footage of a falling aircraft and a photograph of debris on fire in the Tver region, northwest of Moscow.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-plane-crash-prigozhin/32561974.html

'It's Scary': Residents Of Shelled Kharkiv Buildings Sleep In Tents To Stay Safe

Title: 'It's Scary': Residents Of Shelled Kharkiv Buildings Sleep In Tents To Stay Safe
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Svitlana Orikhova has learned not to sleep by day -- too many curious passersby look into her tent. The Kharkiv resident's apartment is still badly damaged from Russian shelling and she worries the ceiling may fall in, so she sleeps in a tent outside.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kharkiv-house-apartment-tent-shelling-civilian-reconstruction-russia-heat/32561844.html

Latest 3D Printing Technology Speeds Construction Of New Homes For Ukrainians

Title: Latest 3D Printing Technology Speeds Construction Of New Homes For Ukrainians
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ukrainian engineers are using 3D printing technology to speed up the building of new homes to replace those destroyed by war. Natalya Beryozova lost her house near the city of Irpin when Russians shelled it in 2022. Now, 3D construction is creating new concrete walls for her.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-3d-construction-housing-civilian-irpin-russia-shelling-home-technology/32559061.html

Memorial For 6-Year-Old Sofia Killed By Russian Attack On Ukraine's Chernihiv

Title: Memorial For 6-Year-Old Sofia Killed By Russian Attack On Ukraine's Chernihiv
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A memorial service took place on August 22 for a six-year-old girl named Sofia, who was killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. The August 19 attack killed at least seven people and injured more than 150 people.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-missile-strike-memorial-service/32559145.html

Missiles Fly But Ukrainian Villagers In Donetsk Region Refuse To Budge

Title: Missiles Fly But Ukrainian Villagers In Donetsk Region Refuse To Budge
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: More than 30 residents from the village of Serebryanka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region have refused to evacuate as Russian forces increase rocket attacks nearby. Volunteers have been striving to get pensioners to leave areas in danger throughout Ukraine but many will not abandon their homes.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-donetsk-civilians-evacuate-missiles-russia-serebryanka-homes-f-16/32557621.html

'Her Hand Was Still Warm': Remembering Victims Of Deadly Russian Strike On Chernihiv

Title: 'Her Hand Was Still Warm': Remembering Victims Of Deadly Russian Strike On Chernihiv
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Residents of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv gathered at makeshift memorials on August 20 to honor those killed a day earlier in a Russian missile strike. At least seven people died, including 22-year-old Nazar Yushchenko and a 6-year-old girl named Sofia. Her mother, Olha Holynska, explained how she comforted her wounded daughter until the end.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-chernihiv-deadly-missile-attack/32557288.html

Ukrainian Soldier Fights On At Spanish Clinic After Losing Part Of His Skull

Title: Ukrainian Soldier Fights On At Spanish Clinic After Losing Part Of His Skull
Runtime: 4:08
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Vitaliy Shumey is being treated at a specialist neurorehabilitation center in Spain after losing part of his skull in a Russian attack. His case, and his father's devoted care, have attracted widespread attention in Ukraine.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-wounded-soldier-spain/32557152.html

Russian Attack On Ukraine's Chernihiv Leaves Seven Dead, Scores Wounded

Title: Russian Attack On Ukraine's Chernihiv Leaves Seven Dead, Scores Wounded
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ukrainians rescuers rushed to help the survivors of a Russian missile attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on August 19. According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, at least seven people were killed, including a child, and more than 148 were wounded.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-chernihiv-russia-attack/32555995.html

Ukrainian Civilians Evacuated From Kupyansk District Near Front As Russian Forces Mass

Title: Ukrainian Civilians Evacuated From Kupyansk District Near Front As Russian Forces Mass
Runtime: 1:32
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Residents of Kupyansk in Ukraine's Kharkiv region are being transported to safety amid signs of a buildup of Russian forces nearby. Volunteer drivers helped pensioners, mothers, and children get to a destination further from the front lines of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kupyansk-kharkiv-evacuation-front-line-civilian-volunteer-transport/32554183.html

Living In Exile In Argentina: The Russian Ex-Soldier Who Refused To Fight In Ukraine

Title: Living In Exile In Argentina: The Russian Ex-Soldier Who Refused To Fight In Ukraine
Runtime: 4:05
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 27-year-old Russian soldier Fyodor was shocked by the scale of the losses. He quit the military and moved to Argentina with his wife, Olena, and scrapes out a living there as a cleaner.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/argentina-russia-army-soldier-ukraine-/32552567.html

Lithuania Closes Two Border Crossings With Belarus

Title: Lithuania Closes Two Border Crossings With Belarus
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Lithuania closed two of its six border checkpoints with Belarus on August 18 in a move it announced earlier this month citing the security risk posed by Russia's Wagner mercenary group. Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland have increased border security since Wagner fighters from Russia arrived in Belarus.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/lithuania-belarus-border/32553979.html

New Communism Museum Invites Visitors To 'Travel Back' To Cold-War Bulgaria

Title: New Communism Museum Invites Visitors To 'Travel Back' To Cold-War Bulgaria
Runtime: 2:58
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Faded Communist Party signs, chipped kitchenware, and political speeches on a dusty record player are on display at Evgeni Mladenov's newly opened communism museum in the Bulgarian mountain village of Banite. The time capsule brings visitors back to the 1980s and immerses them in the Cold War past.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-museum-communism-rodopi-mladenov-banite-mountains/32552648.html

Barbie Goes To Russia: Cinemas Fill For Pirated Film

Title: Barbie Goes To Russia: Cinemas Fill For Pirated Film
Runtime: 1:51
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Wearing pink fashion, young Russians are flocking to movie theaters to watch pirated versions of the Hollywood blockbuster Barbie. Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Hollywood studios halted releases in Russian cinemas.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-barbie-piracy-ukraine-sanctions/32552382.html

Russian Journalist Says She Was Poisoned In Germany

Title: Russian Journalist Says She Was Poisoned In Germany
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Yelena Kostyuchenko believes she was poisoned last year in Germany, where she fled following her critical reporting in Ukraine while covering Russia's full-scale invasion. Kostyuchenko told Current Time that she experienced disorientation, stomach pains, swelling, and other symptoms.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-russia-ukraine-poisoning-journalist/32551088.html

Surgery Restores Hearing For Ukrainian Soldiers Deafened During Combat

Title: Surgery Restores Hearing For Ukrainian Soldiers Deafened During Combat
Runtime: 3:05
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Artillery fire from both sides has been a central element of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The cost to soldiers in hearing loss is difficult to gauge -- but a surgeon who restores broken eardrums and treats inner-ear bones has had success with at least 40 Ukrainian soldiers.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-deaf-artillery-blast-air-pressure-surgery-treatment-russian-mine-explosion/32549279.html

Would Superman Use These Hungarian Phone Booths?

Title: Would Superman Use These Hungarian Phone Booths?
Runtime: 3:14
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: There are still thousands of phone booths in Hungary, even though few people use them and many are in poor repair or have been vandalized. Around half are card-operated, but phone cards were discontinued in 2011. They can still be used to make emergency calls -- if they're not broken.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-pay-phones-rfe-mp4/32549204.html

Protests Spread In Bosnia Over Shocking Killing Of Woman On Instagram

Title: Protests Spread In Bosnia Over Shocking Killing Of Woman On Instagram
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Femicide protests have spread across Bosnia-Herzegovina after a man live streamed the killing of his ex-wife on Instagram. The funeral of Nizama Hecimovic was attended by thousands of people. Instagram's owner, Meta, told RFE/RL it was "deeply saddened."
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/bosnia-femicide-instagram-protest-funeral/32549075.html

Deadly Explosion Rips Through Gasoline Station In Russia's North Caucasus

Title: Deadly Explosion Rips Through Gasoline Station In Russia's North Caucasus
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: At least 33 people have been killed in a powerful explosion that rocked a gasoline station in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, late on August 14. Daghestan's leader, Sergei Melikov, declared August 15 to be a day of mourning across the republic.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-daghestan-gasoline-station-explosion/32548899.html

Russia Launches Air Strikes On Ukraine's Western Regions

Title: Russia Launches Air Strikes On Ukraine's Western Regions
Runtime: 0:45
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Russia launched a major air attack using cruise missiles on western Ukraine early on August 15, with officials reporting at least three people dead and many others injured. Ukraine's air force said it shot down 16 of the 28 cruise missiles launched from both air and sea.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-air-strikes-western-regions/32548723.html

'I Live For My Children': Moldovan Woman Is Foster Mom To 28 Kids

Title: 'I Live For My Children': Moldovan Woman Is Foster Mom To 28 Kids
Runtime: 3:48
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Over 30 years, Ana Furtuna from the Moldovan city of Drochia has been a foster parent to 28 children. When she and her husband first realized they would not be able to have their own children, they took in seven foster kids from an orphanage.

Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/children-moldova-woman-foster-mom-28-kids/32547515.html

Outrage After Bodybuilder Live Streams Killing Of Ex-Wife On Instagram

Title: Outrage After Bodybuilder Live Streams Killing Of Ex-Wife On Instagram
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: People in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac expressed outrage after a bodybuilder killed his ex-wife and live streamed it before committing suicide on August 11. She had previously reported him for violent threats and acts -- but her request for a restraining order was rejected by a court.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/bosnia-instagram-murder-livestream/32547514.html

'I'm Dreaming': Armenian Couple Have Surrogate-Born Child After Losing Two Sons In Karabakh War

Title: 'I'm Dreaming': Armenian Couple Have Surrogate-Born Child After Losing Two Sons In Karabakh War
Runtime: 3:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: An Armenian couple who lost two sons during a 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan have had a new baby son with the help of a surrogate mother. Nushik Muradian, 49, and Gegham Ghazaria have named the baby Samvel after one of their late sons who were both killed on the same day.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-couple-surrogate-baby-death-two-sons-karabakh-war-azerbaijan/32544260.html

Revealed: Documents Show That Russia Is Hitting Ukraine With Ukrainian Missiles

Title: Revealed: Documents Show That Russia Is Hitting Ukraine With Ukrainian Missiles
Runtime: 5:40
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: RFE/RL has found documentary evidence that Russia is attacking Ukraine with cruise missiles that Kyiv handed over to Moscow in the 1990s. The serial numbers of numerous missiles that hit targets in Ukraine match those of missiles listed in the 1999 agreement on the weapons handover.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-cruise-missiles-kh55/32544148.html

‘Like A Prisoner’: A Former Afghan Female Prosecutor Hunted By The Taliban

Title: ‘Like A Prisoner’: A Former Afghan Female Prosecutor Hunted By The Taliban
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: She once helped put Taliban militants in prison, but now they are hunting her. Many former state prosecutors are in hiding and have been in fear for their lives since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan two years ago. Now one of them, a female prosecutor, agreed to an interview with RFE/RL.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-taliban-prosecutors/32539433.html

'All Of It Must Be Recorded': Still No Justice Three Years After Crackdown On Belarus Protests

Title: 'All Of It Must Be Recorded': Still No Justice Three Years After Crackdown On Belarus Protests
Runtime: 3:35
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: On the third anniversary of a disputed presidential vote in Belarus, opposition activists demanded justice for protesters jailed and beaten in a brutal crackdown. Unprecedented demonstrations erupted against after Alyaksandr Lukashenka declared victory in an election seen widely seen as rigged.

Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-election-lukashenka-protest-crackdown-anniversary-justice-police-violence/32542749.html

'I Miss The Dusty Roads': Afghan Refugees Stuck In Albanian Seaside Town

Title: 'I Miss The Dusty Roads': Afghan Refugees Stuck In Albanian Seaside Town
Runtime: 3:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: For almost two years, hundreds of Afghan refugees have been stuck in Albania awaiting a green light to move to the United States. As they bide their time in the coastal resort of Shengjin, some have
found work as cooks in tourist restaurants.

By @radio-evropaelire

Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-albania-us-visa-restaurant-refugee/32531017.html

Ukrainian Engineers 3D-Print Boots To Help Protect Sappers

Title: Ukrainian Engineers 3D-Print Boots To Help Protect Sappers
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A Ukrainian firm has developed low-cost boots that can help protect mine-clearance teams from injury. Owner Ihor Yefimenko says the boots, which cost $400 and are 3D-printed, are significantly cheaper than Western imports.

Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-engineers-3d-printing-anti-mine-boots/32541203.html

One Killed, Dozens Injured In Massive Explosion At Optical Plant Outside Moscow

Title: One Killed, Dozens Injured In Massive Explosion At Optical Plant Outside Moscow
Runtime: 0:46
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: One person was killed and more than 40 were injured, with five in intensive care, in an explosion on August 9 at an optical plant in the city of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 kilometers outside Moscow.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sergiev-posad-factory-blast/32541020.html

Armenian Police Detain Protesters Demanding End Of Lachin Corridor Blockade

Title: Armenian Police Detain Protesters Demanding End Of Lachin Corridor Blockade
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Armenian police detained more than a dozen protesters outside a government building in Yerevan on August 8 after they demanded authorities take steps to unblock the Lachin Corridor, the only road linking the ethnic Armenian-populated Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-protests-lachin-corridor-blockade/32540524.html

Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Targeting Rescue Workers In Deadly Strike

Title: Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Targeting Rescue Workers In Deadly Strike
Runtime: 2:19
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Kyiv has accused the Kremlin of deliberately targeting rescue workers in missile strikes on residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in two attacks on August 7. Rescuers were responding to the first strike when another followed.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-pokrovsk-donetsk-missile-apartment-hotel-civilian-rescue-russia-target-rescue-worker/32539505.html

How One Man Saved His Niece From A Deadly Georgian Landslide

Title: How One Man Saved His Niece From A Deadly Georgian Landslide
Runtime: 3:22
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Davit Jeladze was on a family hike when a landslide swept through the Georgian resort town of Shovi on August 3. Jedladze and his 6-year-old niece Masho spent four hours battling through the mud to safety. At least 18 people were killed in the landslide.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-man-rescue-niece-landslide-/32539327.html

Pakistani Police Detain Dozens Of Imran Khan's Supporters

Title: Pakistani Police Detain Dozens Of Imran Khan's Supporters
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Pakistan's police detained dozens of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan who gathered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on August 7 to protest against his arrest. Khan, who is chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party, was arrested on charges of selling state gifts unlawfully during his tenure as premier from 2018 to 2022. Khan rejects the charges and is appealing the conviction.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-police-detain-imran-khan-supporters/32539114.html

Ukrainian Military Doctor Returns To Service After 'Brutal' Russian Captivity

Title: Ukrainian Military Doctor Returns To Service After 'Brutal' Russian Captivity
Runtime: 3:23
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Volodymyr Labuzov was captured in April 2022 when the Ukrainian port of Mariupol fell to Russian forces after weeks of fighting. Labuzov, a military doctor who had been working in a makeshift hospital in the area, was one of 2,500 prisoners taken by the Russians. Released in a prisoner swap after seven months, he recalls that the Ukrainian captives were treated "brutally."

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Ukrainian Soars High To Tear Down Soviet Symbols Amid Russian Invasion

Title: Ukrainian Soars High To Tear Down Soviet Symbols Amid Russian Invasion
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ukraine has completed the installation of its trident coat of arms on the shield of a 102-meter Soviet-era statue that dominates the Kyiv skyline, replacing the Soviet sickle-and-hammer emblem. Construction workers completed the change on August 6.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-motherland-statue-trident/32536479.html

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