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Sarah Rainsford

Sarah Rainsford

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In Ukraine, the show must go on - even underground

If you want to go to a concert in Kharkiv these days, you have to know who to ask. In Ukraine's second city, just 40 kilometres from the Russian...

06.03.2024 100

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Navalny was often asked: 'Do you fear for your life?'

There was a time when journalists used to ask Alexei Navalny why he was still free. The next question was often whether he feared for his life. When...

17.02.2024 200

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The Ukraine schools moving underground to keep pupils safe

Russia's war has transformed everything in Kharkiv, including childhood. Missiles are fired on Ukraine's second city from across the Russian border...

02.02.2024 5

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Poland's leaders caught up in battle for airwaves

Outside Poland's main evening news studio there's a row of police stationed for protection. The entire building of public broadcaster TVP is...

17.01.2024 30

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Stunned Prague students mourn and no-one mentions killer

As the darkness lifted in Prague on Friday, bright lights were still burning inside the Arts Faculty as they had through the night. The police cordon...

23.12.2023 80

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Poland truck protests leave Ukrainian drivers stranded

The queue of trucks starts more than 20 kilometres from Poland's eastern border. Hundreds of Ukrainian lorries are parked along the road in an...

20.11.2023 50

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Bitter campaign splits Poland ahead of key election

In the old Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where striking workers were once the catalyst for major political change, young Poles now debate how to protect...

13.10.2023 80

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Armenians rush to help Karabakh ‘brothers and sisters’

Every hour, the number of people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh climbs even further. The official count of refugees is now more than half the population of...

28.09.2023 60

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