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12/04/2023 - Cineuropa profiles the winning projects of this year's East Doc Platform

On Tuesday the State Prosecutor’s Office in Russia received a petition to declare actress Liya Akhezhakova a foreign agent and charge her with several crimes, including treason, Current Time and other media announced.

Decision-making in the Kremlin had been so erratic—even before the re-invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022—that the proposition of President Vladimir Putin inhabiting a bubble of servile courtiers and carefully doctored information appeared perfectly plausible. Early April 2023 has brought even more evidence supporting this assumption of detachment from reality typical for mature autocratic regimes but aggravated by an …

One of the most important areas in Bahmut is under the control of the soldiers of Brigade no. 80 assault of the AFU. Near their positions, Russian troops

Ukrainian assault brigade sappers risk everything to clear the front line of mines laid by Russian forces -- and lay their own. They often work a few hundred meters from Russian positions, leaving them vulnerable to attack. As one sapper told Current Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda about a recent mission: "I thought I wasn't coming back."

Amid speculation about who was behind the apparent assassination of a “military blogger” who avidly supported Russia’s war on Ukraine, analysts are certain the bombing in St. Petersburg will be used to suppress the opposition even further.

31/03/2023 - The Soldier's Journey, Cuba & Alaska and May It Be a Girl have shared the other main awards at the leading documentary event

On March 31, President Vladimir Putin signed a new decree on Russia’s “Foreign Policy Concept,” an odd document that attempts to combine the Kremlin’s distorted worldview with an inflated perception of Russia’s role in the world, with the goal of beguiling the states of the Global South. The decree presents Russia as a particular “state-civilization” with a “unique mission in …

Read why Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow confirmed unfortunate suspicions that China isn't interested in peace but a Russian victory.

31/03/2023 - The Soldier's Journey, Cuba & Alaska and May It Be a Girl have shared the other main awards at the leading documentary event