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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.
A Russian businessman charged with bribing senior Defense Ministry officials on behalf of suppliers has died in pretrial detention, according to a member of the country's human rights council.
An oil depot was on fire in Russia's southwestern Rostov region following a Ukrainian drone attack early on July 13, the region's governor, Vasily Golubev, said on Telegram.
Emergency officials in the Moscow region said on July 12 that a Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane crashed near the city of Kolomna, near the Russian capital, killing all three crew members on board.
A Russian soldier opened fire at fellow servicemen in the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine before fleeing the site.
Two men involved in a high-profile hostage crisis in the southwestern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don last month were sent to pretrial detention for at least two months, the unified press service of the courts in the Rostov region said on July 11.
The Riga City Court sentenced pro-Kremlin activist Jelena Kreile on July 10 to three years in prison on charges of justifying war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine and the genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the Soviet Union in Latvia.
An ultraconservative, coronavirus-denying Russian priest who is serving a seven-year prison term on charges of inciting hatred, vigilantism, violating the right to religious freedom, and encouraging suicide, has asked President Vladimir Putin to pardon him and send him to the war in Ukraine.
A court in Uzbekistan has convicted a 26-year-old man for being a mercenary after he returned to the Central Asian nation following a six-month stint in the ranks of the Wagner group where he was recruited from a Russian prison.
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