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A Tajik court has ordered pretrial detention of two months for two popular bloggers known for their reports criticizing the authorities detained recently in the capital, Dushanbe.

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Cold, hard cash can ease the process of "filtration" being imposed on Ukrainians in Russian-controlled territory. But Ukrainians who have made their way out have said that coffee, tea, cigarettes, and vodka are other popular requests at checkpoints along the way.

Current Time reporters asked people across Russia how and when they think Russian President Vladimir Putin will leave office and what changes his departure might bring. Answers ranged from, "He'll either be killed or will die," and, "I hope a disease will take him down as soon as possible," to: "I can see no other candidates. Only Putin."

Ukrainian authorities are desperately trying to persuade those remaining in Lysychansk to get out while they still can. It's a frustrating task for volunteers who race into the city, trying to avoid Russian rocket fire, and find people to evacuate -- and persuade those who don't want to.

The people of Novgorod died in loneliness and darkness. The Ukrainians are still fighting in front of the whole civilised world. History is painfully repeating itself.

Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's spokeswoman says the Kremlin critic has been transferred to a penitentiary with harsher conditions.

A Belarusian father and son have evaded around-the-clock secret-service surveillance to flee their country after spending almost two years at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk, where they were living to avoid arrest after demonstrating against an August 2020 presidential election widely seen as falsified. The official results gave victory to authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, but weren't recognized by the West. Vital and Uladzislau Kuznechyk spoke to Current Time in Latvia on June 10.

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