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Russia's Supreme Court on February 15 rejected two appeals filed by anti-war presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin related to a decision by election officials not to register him for next month's election.
Ukraine and Russia on February 15 both reported missile and drone strikes that caused deaths and injuries among civilians and caused material damage.
The Ukrainian military says it has destroyed a large Russian landing ship in the Black Sea off the coast of occupied Crimea in a combined operation of the armed forces and military intelligence.
Russian authorities said on February 13 that a 38-year-old German national was detained at Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg for having candies containing cannabis, which is legal in Germany but illegal in Russia.
Siemens is closing its business in Russia, according to its final financial report for 2023, which declared it impossible to continue working in the country and announced a voluntary liquidation
RFE/RL reporters were pursued by a drone and questioned by police after getting close to a $700 million superyacht believed to be owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 140-meter Scheherazade was seized by Italy in May 2022 as part of EU sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A Moscow court on February 12 sentenced Kirill Sukhanov, the commercial director of the Ostorozhno Media media holding to 7 1/2 years in prison on an extortion charge.
A Russian court has sentenced the activist Maksim Ivankin, who is already serving a lengthy prison term in the high-profile “Set” (Network) case, to an additional 24 years in prison on a double murder conviction that he said he first confessed to under torture.
Russia plans to create a blacklist of YouTube vloggers who refuse to join a Kremlin-backed alternative to the U.S. video platform as it seeks to tighten its grip on information.
A Russian court in Volgograd has detained a 23-year-old woman on suspicion of "rehabilitating Nazism" after she posted a video of herself online mocking a monument to a significant Soviet victory in World War II.
Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) on February 9 added jailed opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov to its list of terrorists, meaning that all of his assets in Russia will be frozen.
Russia and Ukraine on February 8 exchanged 100 prisoners of war each after mediation efforts by the United Arab Emirates.
Russia's Central Election Commission barred Boris Nadezhdin from running against incumbent Vladimir Putin in the country's upcoming presidential vote on March 15-17. The opposition politician has promised to fight the ban and to appeal the decision to Russia's Supreme Court.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva blamed a strawberry dessert made by her grandfather for the presence of banned doping substances that resulted in her being stripped of Olympic gold, an explanation rejected by arbitration judges.
Boris Nadezhdin, the only remaining anti-war presidential hopeful, said on February 8 that Russia's Central Election Commission (TsIK) refused to register him for an upcoming election set up to hand incumbent Vladimir Putin another six-year term.
A large explosion lit up the night sky on February 7 near Votkinsk, a city about 1,000 kilometers east of Moscow that is the location of a Russian military production facility.
The European Court of Justice on February 7 rejected appeals filed by Uzbek-born Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov and former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov against European sanctions imposed on them for having close ties with the Kremlin and supporting Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 14 signed into law a bill allowing for the confiscation of property and assets of individuals convicted of distributing "false" information about Russia's armed forces.
The press secretary of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny said on February 6 that the outspoken Kremlin critic had been placed in solitary confinement five days earlier for unspecified reasons.
A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia for prominent Russian writer Boris Akunin (aka Grigory Chkhartishvili), who has been accused of calling for "terrorism" and disseminating "fake information" about the Russian Army.
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