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A U.S. government-funded Russian-language TV channel is hiring a journalist who supported Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Employees at the news outlet are incensed.

Ukrainian artillery is targeting Russian armored guns at a range of up to 28 kilometers in the ongoing battle for Bakhmut. Using a captured self-propelled cannon, a Ukrainian artillery crew is also trying to destroy Russian command posts. They told Current Time on March 27 that they've seen a slowdown in the frequency of Russian attacks but added that intense fighting continues for control of the frontline city.

If this happens, Ukraine will step up mobilization.

RFE/RL spoke with military and political analysts to get their takes on Russian President Vladimir Putin's March 25 announcement that Russia could base tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of ally Belarus.

Top Russian officials — including lawmakers, governors and senior managers of state-owned companies — have been placed under strict foreign travel restrictions by the Kremlin since the start of the Ukraine war in an apparent attempt to head off defections and hinder the work of foreign intelligence services.  The system of controls on leaving the country was described to The Moscow Times by 10 former and current officials, including an old acquaintance of President Vladimir Putin, who all r...

More than a year after Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and in the midst of a historic crackdown on dissent, a handful of Russians continue to risk their lives and liberty in a quixotic bid to convince their country to change course.

Bishkek's Lenin District Court has ordered an examination of the language used in a video the government cited when it halted the operations of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, saying it contains elements of inciting ethnic hatred and war propaganda, an allegation the broadcaster has rejected.

Plus: Xi brandishes his statesman status, a Chinese insider's view on the war in Ukraine, Beijing and Kyiv's complicated dance, and much more.

Sparing nothing, they are losing significant strength and becoming exhausted - Click the link for more details.

A friend of a mobilized Russian soldier from Siberia has gone public with the man's account of Russia's costly offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, describing how poorly trained and equipped mobilized soldiers take enormous casualties trying to storm hardened defensive positions.