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A Russian man with diplomatic immunity who was squatting for several days on the site where Moscow wanted to build a new embassy in Canberra has left after Australia’s high court dismissed Russia’s attempt to temporarily hold on to the property near the Australian parliament.
Russia's Supreme Court on June 22 rejected jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's motion against the Justice Ministry over his prison's refusal to allow him to have pen and paper.
Charles University in Prague has opened a master's degree program on the study of Russian and the former Soviet republics, the university in the Czech capital said on June 21.
The Moscow City Court has rejected U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich's appeal against his pretrial detention on charges of espionage, which he, his newspaper The Wall Street Journal, and the U.S. government have strongly denied.
A military court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 21 sentenced anti-war activist Mikhail Sokolov to 11 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a military recruitment center in the city of Perm in December.
Police in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on June 22 searched the homes of the lawyer and public defender of anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov, who died while in custody last week.
Nuclear physicist Grigory Klinishov, one of the creators of the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb known as RDS-37, was found dead in Moscow on June 22.
A court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced an employee of the Federal Nuclear Center to nine years in prison on June 21 on a charge of treason.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 21 that it has launched a probe into the death in custody of 40-year-old anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don last week.
Lithuanian lawmakers have initiated a process to take away the citizenship of Moscow-born figure skater Margarita Drobiazko over her participation in an event in Russia in August 2022, Lithuania's National Radio and Television reported on June 21.
The Moscow City Court on June 26 sentenced Russian physicist Valery Golubkin to 12 years in prison on a treason charge.
An explosion hit a major gunpowder plant in Russia's southwestern region of Tambov on June 20, killing four people.
An 82-year-old Russian writer was charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine after speaking to a man while selling his books in a park in the city of Perm.
An activist from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has been released from pretrial detention where he was placed in April after being interviewed by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and helping him before the U.S. journalist himself was arrested on espionage charges.
A Russian court sentenced former Ukrainian fighter Denys Muryha on June 20 to 16 years in prison on charges of offering military training to conduct terrorist acts, and joining a paramilitary group called Aydar, which fought against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
General Electric (GE) has stopped servicing GE-made gas turbines installed at Russian thermal power plants with extended sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine coming into force.
The Russian Prosecutor's Office has designated prominent human rights group Agora, which has provided political and rights activists with legal advice, as "an undesirable organization" and banned its operations in the country.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don handed prison terms to four residents of Ukraine's Russian-annexed Crimea on June 19 on terrorism charges.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny faces an additional three decades behind bars in a new trial on extremism charges that started on June 19.
Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced in April to 25 years in prison after being convicted of state treason, said on June 18 that prison authorities have stopped delivering letters to him.
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