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Floodwaters continue to threaten homes and residential areas in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan on April 21 as water levels reach record highs in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan, where sudden high temperatures have sparked massive snowmelt and the worst flooding in decades.
Police in St. Petersburg on April 18 searched the home of journalist Ksenia Klochkova as part of an investigation of her former colleague, Andrei Zakharov.
A court in Moscow on April 18 sent to pretrial detention a Russian man suspected of being involved in the attempted murder of a former officer of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on April 19 that Polish authorities had detained two men suspected of attacking Leonid Volkov, an associate of late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
The Memorial human rights groups says that a court in Russia's western city of Oryol ordered Russian-American citizen Ilya Startsev to pay 400,000 rubles ($4,240) on a charge of financing an extremist group.
Russia's Federation Council on April 17 voted to appoint Irina Podnosova, who in 1975 graduated from the Leningrad State University's law school along with Vladimir Putin, to the post of chairwoman of the Supreme Court.
More than 200 animals died on April 16 in a fire at a zoo in Yevpatoria in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Officials in Russia's Kurgan region in the southern Urals are urging residents of districts threatened by flooding to evacuate immediately.
Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg called on thousands of residents to evacuate immediately on April 12 due to rapidly rising floodwaters after major rivers burst their banks due to a historic deluge of melting snow.
A former Ukrainian secret service employee was injured when a device under his car exploded in Moscow on April 12.
The bodies of 99 fallen Ukrainian soldiers were returned to Kyiv, Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported in a message on April 12.
Heavy rains and a rapid rise in temperatures causing a massive snowmelt continue to create "difficult" conditions in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan, with rivers bursting their banks amid forecasts that the worst may be yet to come.
Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) said two alleged militants were killed in a "counterterrorism" operation that started on April 11 in the North Caucasus.
Floodwaters continue to submerge large areas of southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan with officials predicting the worse is yet to come as a massive snowmelt amid unseasonably warm temperatures forced tens of thousands from their homes.
Russia's government-linked Baza Telegram channel said on April 10 that the Investigative Committee had launched a probe against Zalina Marshenkulova, a self-exiled activist journalist, on a charge of justifying terrorism.
A military court in Russia on April 10 sentenced two men to nine years in prison each in separate cases for their plans to join the Freedom of Russia legion fighting with Ukraine against Russian forces.
Magomed Gadzhiyev, a self-exiled former member of Russia's State Duma, is reportedly wanted for ordering the assassination of Maksud Sadikov, the rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations, and his driver in Daghestan in 2011.
Reuters cited three sources on April 8 as saying Russia had asked Kazakhstan to supply it with 100,000 tons of gasoline in case of shortages caused by Ukrainian drone attacks at Russian oil refineries.
Russian anti-war activist Aleksandr Demidenko, who helped hundreds of Ukrainian refugees in the Belgorod region to return to Ukraine, died in custody last week, his lawyer told his family.
Russia's government on April 7 declared flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported.
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