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In an interview with Current Time, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that he doesn't believe Russian President Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons and that he has mended his rift with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

Ukrainians proudly wore traditional embroidered clothing on May 19 to celebrate Vyshyvanka Day amid Russia's ongoing invasion of their country.

In a wide-ranging interview, Vladislav Inozemtsev, a Russian academic who is the director of the Moscow-based Center for Research on Post-Industrial Studies, discusses Putin's health, whether Russians should feel collective guilt, and predicts how the Putin regime will end. 

Since the Taliban seized power, two Iranian dissidents have allegedly been arrested and another mysteriously killed in Afghanistan. Rights groups say the incidents follow a familiar pattern of arbitrary arrests.

Media this week have reported that Russian ballet master Igor Zelensky is the longtime partner of Yekaterina Tikhonova, who is believed to be the second daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Current Time and its partners look into who Zelensky is and what the future might hold for him.

The predictions were dire when Gazprom turned off the gas taps in late April to Bulgaria. But less than a month later, Bulgaria is confident it can survive without Russian gas.

Putin’s Men, The Israeli Smugglers, And The Great St. Petersburg Drug Bust

The St. Petersburg Lawmaker Who Became Putin’s First Accuser

When the Soviet Union collapsed three decades ago, an unremarkable 39-year-old retired KGB officer named Vladimir Putin found himself at the helm of a municipal committee in Leningrad, now known by its original name, St. Petersburg.