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Moscow and Chisinau exchanged diplomatic expulsions after a Russian missile that was shot down by Ukraine fell in a Moldovan village
Activists have broken into the five-story Amsterdam home of sanctioned Russian technology tycoon Arkady Volozh and say they plan to use it as a temporary shelter for students and other young individuals.
Small gatherings have been held in several Russian cities to mark the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, even as the Russian government continues carrying out the harshest crackdown on dissent in the post-Soviet period.
Ukraine and Russia have carried out another prisoner exchange, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff announced on October 29, saying the action resulted in the release of 52 Ukrainian citizens.
Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of a series of amendments to the country's controversial "gay propaganda" law, an expansion of the legislation that rights activists say has put LGBT people at risk and led to increased discrimination and violence.
A court in Russia's northwestern city of Arkhangelsk has sentenced a former associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to 30 months in prison on a charge of rehabilitating Nazism.
Russian journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has reportedly left Russia to avoid possible arrest.
A lawmaker from Vladivostok who fled Russia after it invaded Ukraine has received asylum in the United States.
A court in Prague has acquitted a Russian citizen who was accused of taking part in Moscow's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.
The Russian-appointed head of Ukraine's Kherson region has announced that the civilian population will be evacuated from part of the region as he warned of an expected escalation of hostilities.
An appeals court in Moscow has rejected jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's move to have his nine-year prison sentence on charges of financial fraud and contempt of court struck down.
Russian authorities say the death toll in the crash of a Russian military jet during a training flight near a residential building has risen to at least 15 people as first responders ended their search operations.
The bodies of recently mobilized Russian soldiers are arriving back home, adding to dismay over the unpopular and clumsy draft process. Now Putin says the "partial" mobilization will soon wrap up -- but not everyone is convinced.
Emergency services in the Russian city of Yeisk say at least four people were killed and six remain missing in the crash of a Russian military jet on October 17 near a residential building, engulfing the high-rise in flames.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has announced that the military mobilization for the war in Ukraine is over for the Russian capital region.
Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who in March protested Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in a live news broadcast, has fled the country after escaping house arrest.
At least 11 people were killed and 15 wounded on October 15 at a military training ground in the Belgorod region of Russia when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
An oil depot in the Belgorod region of Russia bordering Ukraine caught fire after being shelled on October 15, the third consecutive day of strikes on strategic targets in the region.
A 60-year-old Russian woman may face up to five years in prison for what investigators called the desecration of the grave of the parents of President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's financial monitoring service, Rosfinmonitoring, has added U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. to its registry of "terrorists and extremists."
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