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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."
Hugo Boss has completed the sale of its Russian business, the German luxury fashion brand has announced, the latest Western company to exit Russia over its unprovoked war in Ukraine.
Russia' Interior Ministry on August 5 added Kremlin critic and political analyst Fyodor Krasheninnikov to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
Police in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia on August 5 detained blogger Aleksei Trunov as he planned to attend an event to commemorate thousands of victims of the Soviets' "Great Purge" campaign buried in the region’s Sandarmokh area.
More than 50,000 people have been detained for political reasons after mass protests broke out following the August 2020 presidential election, said Leonid Sudalenko, a member of Belarusian human rights center Vyasna and a former political prisoner.
Russia has claimed that its armed forces seized the eastern Ukrainian village of Novoselivka Persha, as Ukrainian authorities on August 4 ordered the evacuation of civilians from areas of heavy Russian shelling in the Donetsk region.
Ukraine's military said on August 3 that it had sunk a submarine in Russian-controlled Sevastopol, attacked a southern Russian airfield, and targeted oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in a number of regions.
Russian classical pianist and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir has died in pretrial custody in the city of Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
Dmitry Savelyev, a member of the Russian parliament's upper chamber, was detained on August 2 on suspicion of involvement in a plot to kill his business partner.
Emergency officials in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil said on August 2 that three more bodies, including that of a child, were found amid the debris of a residential building that partially collapsed after a gas explosion, bringing the number of people killed in the accident to six.
Moscow's Lefortovo Court on August 1 issued an arrest warant in absentia on a charge of treason for lawyer Ilya Novikov, an outspoken Kremlin critic who has openly criticized Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
In a move to try to ease a shortage of troops, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on July 31 that raises one-time payments to individuals who sign a contract to serve in the invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, on July 31 approved in all three readings a bill that obliges naturalized Russian citizens to go through military registration.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on July 31 it started the "final, third stage" of tactical nuclear missiles' drills with involvement of the Central and Southern Military Districts.
Russia’s World Friendship Games, scheduled for September 2024, have been postponed until 2025, according to a July 30 statement by the International Friendship Association, the official organizer of the games.
A recent decision by Hungary to make it easier for Russian and Belarusian nationals to enter that country is triggering criticism within the EU, with the leader of the biggest political bloc warning it could open the doors to spies.
Less than three weeks after the Moscow City Court upheld the 30-month imprisonment of veteran rights activist Oleg Orlov was moved from a detention center in the city of Syzran, the Memorial human rights group said on July 29.
A Moscow court on July 29 issued arrest warrants for two more self-exiled members of the Vesna youth movement over their public condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine launched a wave of drone strikes deep inside Russian territory early on July 29, damaging energy facilities in two regions, Russia's Defense Ministry and regional officials said a day after a reported Ukrainian attack set a Russian oil refinery on fire.
Ukraine's military intelligence claimed on July 27 that its drones attacked the Olenya airfield in Russia's far northern Murmansk region, saying it struck a TU-22M3 strategic bomber. It also said that three Russian Army helicopters had been destroyed on Russian territory over the previous week.
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