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Three U.S. B-52 strategic bombers have completed a training flight in Ukrainian airspace, according to a statement by U.S. Air Force command in Europe.
Russia is resuming international flights with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), and the Maldives.
A court in Moscow has extended pretrial detention of former journalist Ivan Safronov, who is charged with high treason.
A prominent Russian blogger and activist known for his open criticism of the government, Yegor Zhukov, says a physical attack on him earlier this week was politically motivated.
A member of Aleksei Navalny’s team said his vehicle was pursued by individuals on quadricycles in Tatarstan after filming an investigation in the region.
One of the largest glaciers in Russia’s Urals region has completely melted, according to members of a research group that carried out an expedition.
A prominent Russia blogger and activist known for his open criticism of the government, Yegor Zhukov, has been hospitalized after two unknown attackers beat him near his Moscow home.
Locals in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have held their 50th protest against the July arrest of the region’s popular former governor, Sergei Furgal.
Russian prosecutors said on August 27 that they have no indication so far that a criminal act has been committed against Aleksei Navalny, and requested that German medics treating the opposition leader to share his medical records.
Kremlin-connected Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin says he intends to collect a debt from comatose Aleksei Navalny and his shuttered Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) if the opposition activist survives what European doctors say was a poisoning.
The Kremlin says it does not want the hospitalization of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to damage relations between Moscow and the West, but is opposed to saying that Navalny was "poisoned" until medical tests confirm finding a specific toxin in his body.
Two Moscow correspondents for RFE/RL's Russian Service have been expelled from Belarus after being detained by police in Minsk on August 21.
White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said on August 20 the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny was “extraordinarily concerning” and could have an impact on U.S.-Russia relations.
Thousands of protesters have marched in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, where rallies against President Vladimir Putin's role in a regional political crisis have been held for over a month.
Belarus has released 32 Russian citizens who were detained near Minsk last month and accused of being mercenaries plotting to “destabilize” the situation in Belarus around the August 9 presidential election.
Seven members of the so-called New Greatness movement have been handed sentences ranging from 7 years in prison to 4-year suspended sentences.
Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges that he rejects, has been transferred to a penal colony in the region of Mordovia, historically known for Russia's toughest prisons, including Soviet-era labor camps for political prisoners.
A court in the Russian city of Volsk in the Saratov region has sentenced a teenager to seven years in prison for attacking students and teachers at his school with homemade firebombs and an ax.
Dozens of people were reportedly detained at demonstrations across Russia on August 1 as a wave of anti-Kremlin protests continued following the unseating and arrest of a jailed former governor in Russia's Far East.
Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against Yulia Galyamina, an opposition member of a Moscow district council and an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, over her involvement in anti-Kremlin rallies.
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