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A court in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok on August 19 rejected the appeal filed by the lawyer of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black against his sentence of 3 years and 9 months in a general regime penal colony on charges of theft and threat to kill.
Belarus has deployed nearly one-third of its troops to the border with Ukraine, the country’s authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka told Russia’s state-run Rossia-1 television channel on August 18.
The commander of Ukraine’s air force says a second bridge in Russia’s Kursk region has been struck as Kyiv tries to weaken Russia’s combat operations in the area.
A Russian court on August 16 extended custody of four Tajik men suspected of carrying out the deadliest terrorist attack on Russian soil in two decades.
Agents of the FBI have raided and searched the Virginia home of Dmitri Simes, a prominent political commentator and author who hosts a current-affairs program on Russia’s state-run Channel One television, the newspaper Rappahannock News reported on August 16.
A Russian court has sentenced dual U.S.-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina to 12 years in prison after convicting her of treason for transferring $51 to a Ukrainian aid group in early 2022.
A court in the Far Eastern Russian city of Magadan has sentenced an unidentified local man to six months in prison after convicting him of failing to report another local’s intention to carry out an arson attack against a military recruitment office.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on August 14 that Moscow had withdrawn two weeks earlier from the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
Russia's Pervy Otdel rights group said on August 13 that Darya Trepova, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for her role in the killing of pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (aka Maksim Fomin), was transferred to a prison hospital for unspecified reasons.
Ukraine's top military commander on August 13 said Ukrainian forces have taken control of 74 settlements in Russia's Kursk region as Ukrainian forces continued to make headway.
Russia has imposed anti-terror measures in Kursk, site of a Ukrainian military incursion, and two nearby regions as well as Bryansk, and Belgorod.
Ukrainian special forces conducted an amphibious raid on the Russian-occupied Kinburn Spit in the Black Sea, killing about 30 Russian soldiers and destroying six armored vehicles, Ukraine's military intelligence said.
The acting governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Khabarovsk, Dmitry Demeshin, said on August 9 that a military parade will be held next month in the region's capital, also called Khabarovsk, to mark the victory over Japan in 1945.
Russia declared what it described as a "federal-level" emergency on August 9 in the Kursk region, the site of a four-day incursion by Ukrainian forces. The announcement came hours after a Ukrainian military strike on an airfield there.
The YouTube video-hosting site and app have stopped being accessible across Russia, thousands of Internet users in the country said online on August 8.
The governor of Russia's Kursk region bordering Ukraine said on August 7 that a state of emergency has been declared on day two of an apparent large-scale Ukrainian ground offensive that Russia says is supported by tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery.
Niger's ruling military junta has announced it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Ukraine, becoming the second African state to sever ties with Kyiv in days following comments by a Ukrainian official perceived as lending support to rebels in neighboring Mali.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on August 6 it summoned Moldova's charges d'affaires and informed him that an employee of the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow had been declared persona non grata in response to a similar move by Moldova last week.
The Moscow City Court on August 6 rejected the appeal filed by Aleksandr Kibovsky, a former member of the Moscow municipal government, against his pretrial detention on charges of fraud and bribe-taking.
A Moscow court on August 6 sentenced in absentia Russian journalist Dmitry Kolezev to 7 1/2 years in prison on a charge of "distributing false information about the Russian military motivated by political hatred."
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