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An unidentified man has used a sledgehammer to knock off the head of a bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the town of Zvenigorod in the Moscow region, videos posted by Telegram appeared to show.
A Moscow court on July 22 issued arrest warrants for two members of the Vesna youth movement on charges of organizing an extremist group, distributing false data about Russia's military, calls for anti-government activities, and disrespecting past military glory.
Germany's investigative journalism association Netzwerk Recherche (NR) has expelled influential broadcaster and author Hubert Seipel after it became known that he received money from Moscow for writing laudative books about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Residents of the Russian city of Krasnodar on July 20 staged a rare public protest to vent their anger over recent power cuts in southern Russia.
The Russian Justice Ministry on July 18 added the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to its list of "undesirable organizations."
A Moscow court late on July 17 sent Aleksandr Kibovsky, a former member of the Moscow municipal government, to pretrial detention for at least two months on charges of fraud and bribe-taking.
A Russian-German couple has been convicted by a court in Stuttgart, Germany, of supplying about 120,000 spare parts for Orlan-10 drones to Russia in violation of EU sanctions.
Russia's nuclear energy operator, Rosenergoatom, says a unit of the Rostov nuclear power plant whose disconnection left some 1 million people in southern Russia and parts of occupied Crimea without electricity was switched off due to "a false alarm."
Russia’s State Statistics Service has excluded the total number of deaths from external causes in its annual report, Meduza reported, citing demographic expert Aleksei Rashka.
Russian-Ukrainian dual citizen Ivan Nedilsky was sentenced to 26 years in prison for treason, participation in a terrorist organization, and vandalism, Mediazona reported on July 16.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on July 16 it has launched a probe into self-exiled environmentalist Yevgenia Chirikova on a charge of distributing false information about Russia's military.
A Ukrainian law firm said a court of appeals in the Kirovohrad region granted bail of 9 million hryvnyas ($218,000) to Special Forces Colonel Roman Chervinskiy, who was described by The Washington Post in November as a "coordinator" in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream natural-gas pipeline.
An expert panel in the Russian city of Smolensk has refused to recognize the sculpture of a deer in one of the city's parks as a protected monument on the grounds that it was created in 20th-century Germany, which is deemed to have been a "hostile" country.
A military court in Moscow court on July 15 ruled to transfer jailed Major General Ivan Popov from pretrial detention to house arrest.
A Moscow court on July 15 sentenced self-exiled former municipal lawmaker Yelena Kotyonochkina to 7 1/2 years in prison in absentia on a charge of distributing false information about Russia's military.
A Moscow court on July 15 sentenced Russian-American journalist, writer, and outspoken Kremlin critic Masha Gessen to eight years in prison on a charge of distributing "false" information about Russia's military.
Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko announced a state of emergency in that southern Russian port city due to forest fires engulfing the outskirts of several villages and threatening others in the Krasnodar region.
Russia is developing legislation that would ban child adoption by citizens of countries that recognize the right to change gender, the speaker of the lower house of parliament said.
Russia has decided not to show the 2024 Summer Olympics on national television after its teams were banned from participating in the widely watched event following its invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that bans members of parliament from leaving the country without permission, a move likely aimed at curtailing dissent among the country's elite over his struggling invasion of Ukraine.
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