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The former police chief of the Kizlyar district of Daghestan, Gazi Isayev, was found guilty of involvement in the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro in 2010 and sentenced to life in prison by the Second Western Military Court in Moscow on March 16.
The Russian mercenary group Wagner has placed advertisements on Pornhub, the world’s largest pornographic website, as it tries to recruit fighters to reinforce its troops fighting as part of the Kremlin's war against Ukraine.
The former mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, who is under investigation on a controversial charge of "discrediting the armed forces" involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has been detained again, his lawyer Vladislav Idamzhapov said on March 16.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for noted media manager Ilya Krasilshchik, who lives in Berlin.
Russian parliament's upper chamber has approved a bill expanding the Kremlin's wartime censorship measures to include punishment for anyone considered to have discredited "volunteer" forces such as so-called private military groups involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed as "complete nonsense" allegations that pro-Ukrainian activists with no ties to the state could be behind the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
A replica of the concrete punishment cell that Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny is periodically placed in has been unveiled on a square in Paris.
Aleksandra Shvedchenko, a Russian journalist for the independent Dozhd TV channel who has lived in Tbilisi for the last year, has not been allowed to reenter Georgia after she took a 10-day trip to Latvia.
Lithuania's parliament has designated the Russian armed group Wagner PMC, which is fighting in Ukraine, as a "terrorist organization."
In a closed-door session, a Moscow court on March 13 began to consider the treason case against jailed opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces nearly 25 years in prison for high treason after making comments critical of the Kremlin.
A draft law raising the age of conscription into Russia's army has been submitted to parliament's lower house.
A Moscow court has declared the bankruptcy of RFE/RL's operations in Russia following the company's refusal to pay multiple fines totaling more than 1 billion rubles ($14 million) for noncompliance with the so-called "foreign agents" law.
A documentary tracking jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny as he recovered in Berlin after being poisoned has won this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
Iranian state media reported on March 11 that Tehran has reached a deal to buy advanced SU-35 fighter planes from Russia, citing Iran’s UN mission in New York.
Leonid Volkov, a top associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, says he is suspending his political and public activities after he denied signing a letter arguing for lifting EU sanctions on some London-based Russian oligarchs, only to later admit he lied about his actions.
The Moscow City Court sentenced political scientist Demuri Voronin to 13 years and three months in prison on a high treason charge on March 9.
Leading global tire-producing company Continental says it is planning a "controlled withdrawal" from the Russian market and is in "advanced" talks on selling its plant just outside Moscow.
Amnesty International has recognized as a prisoner of conscience Moscow student Dmitry Ivanov, who was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Moscow's Timiryazev district court on March 6 sentenced Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel, to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 6 that it prevented the assassination of businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, an active supporter of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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