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Ukraine invited the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit Russian territory it has captured in a surprise incursion into the Kursk region.
Russian officials have threatened that a possible decision by the West to allow Kyiv to use donated weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory would result in a major escalation of its war against Ukraine that could include the use of nuclear weapons.
Russia's central bank raised its key interest rate to 19 percent from 18 percent, citing a recent acceleration of inflation.
The European Union has condemned the recent alleged transfer of Iranian-made ballistic missiles to Russia and is considering new sanctions against Tehran in response.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on September 13 declared the Poland-based Belsat TV channel, which broadcasts in Belarusian, an "undesirable organization."
A court in Russia's Vladimir region on September 12 began the trial of three former lawyers for late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny on extremism charges over their association with the Kremlin critic and his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
A military court in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk said on September 12 that it sentenced Private Oleg Gorbachyov of the Russian armed forces to 8 years in prison for beating his wife to death.
Russian TV journalist Nikolai Svanidze, who is credited as one of founders of Russian television, died in Moscow on September 12
As fighting continues to rage in Kursk, RFE/RL’s Russian Service has been keeping track of Ukraine’s incursion with an interactive map of events that uses information compiled and verified from open sources, such as Twitter and Telegram.
A local court in the Moscow region on September 9 sentenced an engineer at a military factory in the city of Dubna to three years in prison for writing pro-Ukrainian messages on key chains.
A court of appeals in St. Petersburg on September 9 rejected an appeal filed by physicist Anatoly Maslov against the 14-year prison sentence he was handed in May on a high treason charge.
Ukrainian officials said a widespread Russian drone-and-missile attack had targeted Kyiv and critical infrastructure in Ukraine's northeast, while Russian officials said an overnight swarm of attack drones from Ukraine killed a woman near the capital and grounded flights at three Moscow airports.
Amid its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia held another illegitimate election in occupied Crimea. The voting, which was denounced by Ukraine and not recognized by most countries of the world, will most likely solidify the local elites’ grip on power.
Russian state media quoted sources in law enforcement over the weekend as saying that a probe was launched in absentia against rapper Morgenshtern (real name Alisher Valeyev) on a charge of failure to comply with Russia's "foreign agent" law.
Incumbents and other loyalists of President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party were expected to coast to victory in most of the 21 regional governorships and other local voting that wrapped up in Russian elections that rights groups and independent experts agree lack genuine competition.
Election monitors have reported being denied access to polling stations as Russia’s nationwide elections continue, while various infractions including carousel voting and vote-buying have been recorded.
The top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a group that represents Ukrainians living in Canadian have sharply criticized the showing of the film Russians At War at the Venice Film Festival, calling it Russian propaganda.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov, in his first public comments since his arrest in France in late August, expressed surprise that he was interrogated and told by investigators that he "may be personally responsible for other people's illegal use" of the popular messaging app.
Russians are voting for governors and regional legislators in 83 regions and cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, on September 6. But many opposition candidates have been barred from running.
A Moscow court has sentenced blogger Aleksandr Shpak, who now lives abroad, to eight years in prison for allegedly distributing false information about the Russian military.
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