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Russia and Ukraine: Work and family

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Russian's Olga Ivshina reflects on reporting assignments in Donetsk, and her Ukrainian grandfather.

Olga Ivshina is a journalist for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Russian. She’s reported on the conflict with Ukraine since 2014, including the fight for Donetsk airport. But Ukraine is more than just a professional assignment – like many Russians Olga also has family from Ukraine. She shares her memories of visiting Ukraine.

Let's play AlWird!
Wordle, a simple word guessing game launched a few months ago, has become an international success. Now there are equivalents in other languages, including Arabic. Yanita Georgieva told the story of AlWird for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Arabic.

Sexism in Somalia
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Africa Eye's most recent film, Somalia, sexism and me, follows the working day of Maryama Omar, a camerawoman in Mogadishu. It shows the hostility she encounters from many men when out doing her job. It's something that Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Somali's Bella Sheegow can relate to.

Why not... dance?
That’s the question being posed by the first in a new series of videos. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Arabic's Julien Hajj explains why they chose dance as a topic, and a male bellydancer as a contributor.

The $200 jackfruit
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Brasil has been asking why a jackfruit was on sale in London for more than $200 dollars, while the fruit often ends up rotting on the streets in Brazil. Luis Barrucho reports on the international jackfruit market.

Nigerian teenagers who became sci-fi sensations
Using a parent's smartphone and tripods made out of wood, a group of nine teenagers started making their own sci-fi movies in 2016. Damilola Oduolowu of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Lagos met them to hear more about their film-making journey.

(Photo: Woman walks away from a damaged residential building in Kyiv, where a military shell allegedly hit, on February 25, 2022. Credit: Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)

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