Ben Tavener

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TV covering #Russia #Ukraine #Georgia #CIS #CAsia. Previously at BBC News. In #Brazil before that. Stories/tips: ben.tavener@tr.com

Media & News CompanyTbilisi, Georgiareuters.comJoined December 2009

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Russian trans people warn of looming surgery ban | Reuters Video

Russia's parliament, the State Duma, is set to give a second reading to legislation that would ban gender reassignment surgery - a move that's causing alarm among the trans community. Rachel Judah...

Trans advocates in Russia brace for proposed gender surgery ban

Elle Solomina is 36, but she says her life truly began in 2021, when she changed her gender to female in her official Russian identification documents.

The Africans fighting on Russia’s front line in Ukraine

Reuters traced the stories of three African men who travelled to Russia in hope of advancement, then ended up fighting for Wagner on the battlefields of Ukraine

Frontline residents evacuated to Russian-controlled port before expected counter-offensive

At a temporary accommodation centre in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk children evacuated from towns and villages near the frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces play...

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Apr 13

What are the rules of eating khinkali dumplings? reut.rs/3mAB1Yl

Georgians throw stones, petrol bombs at police in protest over new ‘foreign agents’ law

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Georgians throw stones, petrol bombs at police in protest over new law

Critics say the law represents an authoritarian shift in the South Caucasus country.

Video version of our anniversary Mariupol project:

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How war survivors live in Russian-controlled Ukraine

One year after Russia launched a full-scale invasion on Mariupol in Ukraine, pensioner Tatiana Bushlanova says the death and destruction on the city has hard...

Shells were exploding nearby but Tatiana Bushlanova didn't flinch when she spoke to us in front of the shattered remains of her home in Mariupol last May. The shells have stopped, but she is still struggling to take in the enormity of what has happened.