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Artyom Kriger, a journalist with the independent SotaVision Telegram channel, has been detained for questioning in an unspecified case.
Ukraine's main security and counterintelligence agency was behind an overnight drone attack that ignited a major fire at an oil depot in the southern Russian city of Azov, a reliable source in the Ukrainian security forces told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on June 18.
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed four deputy defense ministers on June 17 and appointed three new ones, one of whom is Anna Tsivilyova, who, according to investigative reports, is the daughter of Putin's cousin.
Russian lawmaker Andrei Alshevskikh quoted Interior Ministry officials on June 17 as saying that an investigation was launched last month against television journalist Tatyana Lazareva on a charge of justifying terrorism.
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, who was arrested in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok last month, rejected a charge of attacking his Russian girlfriend and threatening to kill her, as his trial resumed.
A Russian journalist was killed in a drone attack in the Russian-controlled part of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, his news organization said on June 16.
Two corrections officers at a Russian detention center in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don were freed on June 16 by Russian special forces who stormed the facility after several inmates took the officers hostage.
Russia’s Southern District Military Court on June 14 designated the Georgian Legion fighting for Ukraine as a “terrorist” organization.
A Russian court on June 13 sentenced blogger Vladislav Sinitsa to an additional 2 1/2 years in prison on extremism charges just ahead of his scheduled release on July 1.
A Moscow court on June 13 postponed until July 1 a hearing into imprisoned Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza's appeal against police inaction in the investigation of his alleged poisonings after the administration of a correctional colony in Siberia said he is no longer at the penitentiary.
A Moscow court ruled on June 13 that the trial of theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk, who are charged with justifying terrorism, must continue behind closed doors
Russia's Interior Ministry has added self-exiled television journalist Tatyana Lazareva to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
The Austrian Interior Ministry told Germany's dpa news agency on June 11 that Vienna had annulled the accreditation of two correspondents for Russia's TASS news agency in April "due to a negative security assessment by the security authorities."
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is serving an 8 1/2-year prison term for his criticism of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, says he will not agree to get exchanged for Russian citizens jailed in the Western countries if such a proposal occurs.
The Jewish community in Yerevan said on June 10 that the only synagogue in the Armenian capital was attacked overnight, the fourth such attack since October.
A Moscow court adjourned to an unspecified date the trial of theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk, who are charged with justifying terrorism, after Berkovich felt unwell and an ambulance was called to the courtroom on June 10.
A military court in Moscow on June 10 sentenced a former owner of the Saturn soccer club, Oleg Medvedev, to life in prison on charges of murder, banditry, and organization of a criminal group.
Ukraine and Russia exchanged drone attacks overnight into June 8, with both sides shooting down the majority of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The head of Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine's southern Kherson region said 22 people were killed and 15 were injured in the town of Sadove in shelling by Ukrainian forces.
Three members of a family were convicted in Belarus for participating in protests following an August 2020 presidential election that saw authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka handed victory despite opposition claims the vote was rigged.
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