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The websites of Russian independent news outlet SOTA and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Memorial Center for Protection of Human Rights have been blocked by media-monitoring agency Roskomnadzor.
Thousands of Russian children have been evacuated from a border area near Ukraine amid days of attacks, with videos posted by locals showing damage to cars and buildings.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says the delimitation and demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan, an issue that has been a key hurdle to a peace deal between the two countries after Baku retook control over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, has begun.
Western leaders say Russian President Vladimir Putin's election win was neither free nor fair as the Kremlin leader claimed victory in the March 15-17 presidential vote. Russia's opposition has been all but silenced following the death of Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny in an Arctic prison in February.
Vladimir Putin has claimed a fifth presidential term with a landslide victory in a tightly controlled election that has been condemned by the West as neither free nor fair as the Russian leader seeks to prove overwhelming popular support for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Thousands of Russians appeared to join an opposition call for protests by gathering at polling stations at midday local time, amid a presidential election engineered to deliver Vladimir Putin six more years in the Kremlin. Long lines of people formed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere.
Russian voters living abroad formed long lines outside embassy polling stations on March 17 as part of a "Noon Against Putin" protest on the final day of voting in Russia's presidential election.
On March 15, the first day of voting in Russia's presidential election, polling stations witnessed a spate of attacks on ballot boxes. Some people burned ballots or threw Molotov cocktails; others used a green antiseptic dye known as "zelyonka" to damage ballots.
Russian opposition figures have called on people to all go to polling stations at the same time -- midday on March 17 -- in a sign of protest against a presidential election widely dismissed as a charade that Kremlin incumbent Vladimir Putin is sure to win.
The Memorial human rights group said on March 15 that imprisoned 70-year-old veteran human rights defender Oleg Orlov was offered exoneration if he agreed to join Russia's war effort in Ukraine.
Russia's Investigative Committee said Belarusian authorities have detained an unidentified Tajik man who fled Russia in October along with another Tajik national to evade military conscription.
The bodies of 100 fallen Ukrainian soldiers were returned to Ukraine, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War -- a Ukrainian government agency -- reported on March 15.
President Vladimir Putin is poised to extend his decades-long rule over Russia in the country's March 15-17 election. The new six-year term would be Putin's fifth in office. Speaking with Current Time, leading psychiatrists discuss how excessive power can impact brain functioning.
Former Moscow municipal lawmaker Aleksei Gorinov, who is serving a seven-year prison term he was handed in July 2022 for opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, says that he is being regularly "tortured by guards."
A helicopter carrying 20 people, including three crew members, crash-landed in Russia's Far Eastern Magadan region, killing one person and seriously injuring another two, rescue services reported on March 14.
Police in Lithuania are hunting for a suspect who attacked Leonid Volkov, an aide to late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, with tear gas and a hammer near his home in Vilnius on March 12. Volkov said his arm was broken and that he sustained several injuries to his leg.
A court in the Russian city of Krasnodar fined two women aged 19 and 24 after a video in which the two were kissing in a cafe was posted on the Internet.
Lithuania said an attack in Vilnius on Leonid Volkov, a former close aide to late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, "likely" organized by Moscow as part of a series of provocations in the Baltic country aimed at intimidating President Vladimir Putin's opponents abroad.
Ukrainian forces are building hundreds of kilometers of fortified trenches along the front lines to try to hold off Russian advances. In the Kharkiv region, a network of tunnels serves as a garrison for soldiers stationed there for what could be an intensified Russian offensive in the spring.
Russia's Defense Ministry said a military transport plane with eight crew and seven passengers onboard crashed in the Ivanovo region on March 12.
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