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The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow on July 3 sentenced three sons of an Orthodox priest Igor Ashcheulov to lengthy prison terms for their intention to join Ukrainian armed forces and fight against the Russian troops invading Ukraine.
Russia's Interior Ministry on July 3 added French businessman Philippe Delpal, a former senior executive in the Baring Vostok investment group, to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
The Moscow City Court announced a guilty verdict on July 1 against two Kazakhs living in Moscow who were charged with railway sabotage.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, has been appointed to head the Human Rights Foundation (HRF).
A court in the western Russian city of Pskov on July 1 fined Denis Kamalyagin, the editor in chief of the Pskovskaya Guberniya newspaper, for purportedly failing to comply with legal requirements stemming from his designation as a “foreign agent.
Ukrainian electricity provider Ukrenerho warned of blackouts and other restrictions on July 1 because of the effects of Russia's ongoing campaign of attacks targeting energy infrastructure combined with increased demand due to high summer temperatures.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 28 that the owner of an office building in the town of Fryazino near Moscow in which six people died after a fire on June 24 has been arrested.
The Moscow Prosecutor's Office said on June 28 that a probe was launched against self-exiled Russian historian Tamara Eidelman on a charge of "rehabilitating Nazism."
A military court in Russia on June 27 sentenced a former Justice Ministry official who openly condemned Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to 14 years in prison in absentia.
The chief of Russia's Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, said on June 27 that about 10,000 migrant workers with Russian passports have been sent to the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.
Russian Railways said on June 27 that two people were killed and one remained missing after nine of 14 passenger cars of the Vorkuta-Novorossiisk train derailed a day earlier in Russia's Komi region.
At least 70 people were injured on June 26 when nine of 14 passenger train cars derailed in the Komi region of western Russia.
One of the most influential Russian poets, Bakhyt Kenzheev died in New York at the age of 73, his colleagues wrote on social media on June 26.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Andrei Belousov on June 25, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said
Russia on June 25 announced a ban on access to 81 different media outlets from 25 European Union countries, saying the action is in retaliation for an EU ban announced in May on several Russian media outlets.
The Kremlin announced on June 25 that it was preparing for a visit to Russia by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- his first since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Russian military's chief of staff Valery Gerasimov for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine.
Russia's Defense Ministry said its air-defense systems shot down 29 Ukrainian drones over Belgorod region and one over Voronezh region early on June 25.
The number of deaths following apparently coordinated attacks on June 23 that targeted Christian and Jewish religious sites and a police station in Russia's Daghestan region on June 25 rose to 21 as the North Caucasus region holds a second day of mourning.
At least eight people died in a fire that broke out on June 24 at an office building in the town of Fryazino near Moscow, Russian news media reports said.
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