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A year ago, videos and photos started to appear on social media, apparently showing Ukrainian troops training with so-called Islamic State. These then contributed to fake news stories about alleged links between the two. Andrey Soshnikov from BBC Russian tells us about his year-long investigation into the videos and what he discovered. Gambia elections - revisited A week ago, BBC Africa's Umaru Fofana told Fifth Floor how astonished he was that President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia conceded defeat so swiftly to his election rival Adamo Barrow. But soon afterwards, the President rejected the election results, causing a political crisis in the country. Umaru is back in the Gambia - and gives us his reaction. Armenia's Daredevils of Sassoun In July this year, Mark Grigorian, who reports for BBC Russian from Armenia, dismissed as a storm in a teacup the occupation of a police station by an armed group calling themselves the Daredevils of Sassoun. Mark explains why he was so wrong, and why Armenia is still talking about the events of July. Inside the Polygon The vast Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, known as the Polygon, has left behind it a legacy of health problems passed down from generation to generation. Its long isolation has also turned it into a time-warp of Soviet life. BBC Uzbek's Rustam Qobil has been there to make a documentary, The Polygon People, which goes out this Sunday. Work-out Dakar-style There's a beach promenade in Dakar, Senegal which has become part of a daily mass work-out. Hundreds of people head there at the end of the day to go running or do improvised gym routines. Clarisse Fortuné of BBC Afrique has been to join them. And Fifi Haroon's pick of the world wide web. Photo credit CyberBerkut