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Russia's Defense Ministry has invited the United Nations and the International Red Cross to investigate the prison site where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) were killed this week in an attack in territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's Navy Day celebrations in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol have been canceled following a drone attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Russian state-run natural gas giant Gazprom announced on June 30 that it has halted gas shipments to Latvia because of contract violations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the shelling of a prison in the eastern Donetsk region holding Ukrainian soldiers was a "deliberate Russian war crime" that claimed more than 50 lives.
Russia’s state media-monitoring agency has blocked the website of the magazine Novaya rasskaz-gazeta for allegedly “discrediting the Russian armed forces.”
A lawmaker from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk who made critical comments pertaining to Russia’s war in Ukraine has reportedly fled the country after prosecutors opened a criminal investigation.
Well-known Russian journalist Sergei Brilyov, a dual Russian-British citizen currently under British sanctions over his role in distributing anti-Ukraine propaganda, has quit the post of deputy director of Russia's State Television and Radio Corporation.
A deputy rector at Russia's presidential Academy of National Economy and State Service (RANKHiGS), Ivan Fedotov, has been placed under house arrest on financial-fraud charges.
Russia's Justice Ministry has demanded the closure of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sohnut, which processes the immigration of Jews to Israel.
Olga Sidorenko was born in Kharkiv in the Soviet era but moved to Russia 25 years ago and raised two sons there. One of them is a Russian soldier who went missing in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine, on March 16. Sidorenko also has a stepson in a government-controlled area of Ukraine.
As Western sanctions tighten against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, RFE/RL asked Muscovites how Russia's isolation affects their daily lives.
The independent Russian television station Dozhd, which was forced to suspend operations in March amid pressure linked to its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says it will start broadcasting some of its programs from Latvia.
Zalim Kerefov, the deputy rector of the Russian Customs Academy who had been arrested on charges of alleged drug dealing, has been found dead in police custody.
Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, known for her live on-air antiwar protest, has been detained by police near her house in the Moscow region, she and her lawyer said on July 1
Russian authorities have added a formerly prominent Russian journalist who currently works for a Kyiv-based Ukrainian TV channel to their fugitives list.
Russian prosecutors have declared investigative news outlets Bellingcat and The Insider "a threat" to the country and banned them as "undesirables" from operating inside Russia.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Krasnodar has handed a four-year prison term to Andrei Pivovarov, the former executive director of the pro-democracy Open Russia movement, on charges of heading an “undesirable” organization.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill expanding the definition of so-called foreign agents to include anyone who is "under foreign influence," a change that critics say will make it even easier for the state to target its domestic critics.
Russian journalist Pyotr Koronayev, who used to work for the Moscow-based Baza news website, and his wife, Tatyana Kulikova, have crossed the border from Mexico and requested political asylum in the United States.
A court in Moscow has sent Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin to pretrial detention for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian military.
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