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Russia's Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on June 26 sentenced in absentia five foreign nationals to prison terms for joining Ukraine's armed forces fighting against Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon was challenged on his pro-Kremlin stance over Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine and how Russian-speakers are treated in his country. In an exclusive interview with Current Time, Dodon refused to say that Russia was to blame for the conflict in Ukraine.
Gunmen killed at least 20 police officers and civilians in attacks on two synagogues, two Russian Orthodox churches, and police targets in two cities in Russia’s Daghestan region on June 23. Here's what is known about the attacks, and what could be behind them.
A Ukrainian artillery crew cheers for the national soccer team competing in the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. The soldiers take advantage of small breaks in the fighting to watch games. But the soldiers must return to battle to push back against Russian forces.
Authorities in Kazakhstan say one of the two suspects wanted in connection with the attempted murder of a Kazakh journalist in Kyiv has turned himself in.
On the anniversary of the mutiny carried out in Russia by the late mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a top manager of his purported “troll factory.”
Moscow's Prosecutor-General's Office has demanded that Russia's Investigative Committee open criminal cases against three women who have been on placed on the "foreign agent" register.
Four people died in a helicopter crash in the Amur region in Russia's Far East, authorities reported on June 21.
The Kyiv shooting of an opposition activist and journalist from Kazakhstan, Aidos Sadyqov, was no random street crime, according to his wife. Natalya Sadyqova was in the car with her husband when a shooter fired on him on June 18.
Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, added self-exiled television journalist Tatyana Lazareva to its list of "terrorists and extremists" on June 19.
A court in the Russian Far East has convicted and sentenced a U.S. Army sergeant who reportedly broke military rules to travel to Russia with his Russian girlfriend in May to three years and nine months in prison for allegedly attacking and threatening her.
An opposition journalist and activist from Kazakhstan, Aidos Sadyqov, was shot in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on June 18 by an unknown assailant.
Outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin, serving 8 1/2 years in prison for openly condemning Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has been transferred to a punitive cell unit (PKT) in a prison in the western Smolensk region, his Telegram channel said.
A military court in Moscow on June 18 sentenced Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko in absentia to 10 years in prison.
Ukraine's main security and counterintelligence agency was behind an overnight drone attack that ignited a major fire at an oil depot in the southern Russian city of Azov, a reliable source in the Ukrainian security forces told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on June 18.
A Moscow court on June 17 issued arrest warrants for two journalists from the independent iStories investigative website -- Yekaterina Fomina and chief editor Roman Anin -- on a charge of "distributing false information about the Russian military."
Ukraine is set to continue to import record amounts of power to make up for a shortfall caused by Russia's targeting of energy infrastructure, which has decimated output.
Ukraine's National Olympic Committee has called on the International Olympic Committee to ban the participation of three female wrestlers from Russia and one from Belarus in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris for their support of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said authorities in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, canceled a performance by Svetlana Zakharova, the pro-Kremlin prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, at the requests of Ukraine's embassy and Slovenia’s Ukrainian community.
A Moscow court on June 11 sentenced in absentia noted Russian lawyer and outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Novikov to 8 1/5 years in prison on charge of spreading false information about Russia's military.
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