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Russia’s Investigative Committee says a suspect in the killing of Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy chief of the department for mobilization in Krasnodar, has been detained.
Six people were killed in a blast at an explosives factory in the central Russian region of Samara, TASS reported, citing emergency services.
Russian investigators have opened a criminal probe into an attack on award-winning journalist Yelena Milashina, who was badly beaten in Chechnya on July 4 along with lawyer, Aleksandr Nemov, while the two were on a trip to the Caucasus region.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny tweeted on July 5 that lyrics from popular Russian hip-hop artist Morgenshtern have been entered as evidence in his current closed-door trial in which he faces an additional three decades in prison on charges of “extremism.”
An award-winning Russian investigative journalist from Novaya Gazeta and a lawyer were badly beaten by armed men during a trip to Chechnya, the human rights group Team Against Torture reported on July 4.
Family members of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny have officially sued the penal colony where he is being held for not allowing them access to him.
Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK) has added British consumer goods company Unilever to its list of sponsors of war.
A memorial has been unveiled in the Kyiv region city of Bucha to memorialize the civilians who died there while it was occupied by Russian forces in the early part of 2022.
Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group, which carried out a short-lived mutiny on June 23-24, has stopped all recruitment.
Russia's Justice Ministry has declared veteran rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, who currently resides outside of Russia, a "foreign agent."
The Moscow city court on July 31 rejected appeals filed by theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk against their pretrial detention on charges of justification of terrorism.
A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 30 sentenced antiwar activist Aleksei Gashev to 10 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a military recruitment center in the city of Perm last year with his colleague Mikhail Sokolov.
The Supreme Court of Norway has canceled the acquittal of Andrei Yakunin, the son of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's longtime confidants, who was found not guilty in December of violating a Norwegian law that bars Russian citizens from flying drones in the country.
Poland's Agency for Internal Security (ABW) said on June 30 that a hockey player from Russia who played for a local team had been arrested earlier in June on an espionage charge.
Prominent Russian nationals continue to renounce their citizenship as the Kremlin presses its war in Ukraine.
Ivan Zhdanov, a self-exiled associate of imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, says his 68-year-old father, Yury Zhdanov, who is also imprisoned in a penal colony, is being harassed.
A military court in Moscow sentenced blogger Roman Ushakov on June 29 to eight years in prison over his comments on Telegram on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has declared the Latvia-based Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper an "undesirable" organization amid the government's ongoing crackdown on civil society and independent organizations.
A Moscow court on June 29 sentenced noted media manager Ilya Krasilshchik, who resides in Berlin, to eight years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Lawyer Irina Gak has left Russia for an unspecified country after her client, anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov, died while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group said on June 26.
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