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Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin, who has openly called for a halt to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, received the 100,000 signatures by January 23 that are needed to be registered as a candidate for the March 18 presidential election.
Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny say the outspoken Kremlin critic was placed in punitive solitary confinement for 10 days for "failing to promptly introduce himself to a prison guard."
The Kremlin has blamed Ukraine for a blaze at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga that broke out on January 21.
Russia's parliament began considering a draft bill on January 22 that would give the state the power to seize the property of people convicted for defaming the armed forces or for calling publicly for actions that undermine state security.
The Russian energy company Novatak suspended some operations at its liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga after a fire erupted early on January 21 following reports of drone sightings in the area.
The Russian government has submitted a bill to parliament to annul a 1956 agreement on fishing rights between the Soviet Union and Britain.
Slovakia’s Culture Ministry said on January 20 that it will resume cooperation with Russia and Belarus.
A Moscow court on January 19 sent a leader of the Uzbek diaspora in Russia, Usman Baratov, to pretrial detention for at least two months on a charge of inciting hatred with his online posts.
Hundreds of people gathered on the central square in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region on January 19 to support activist Fail Alsynov after his sentencing two days earlier to four years in prison on a charge of "inciting ethnic hatred" sparked clashes with police.
A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region, has sentenced six men to up to 13 days in jail for taking part in an unprecedented rally earlier this week to support the former leader of the banned Bashqort movement.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, marking the third anniversary of his incarceration on charges widely believed to be politically motivated, said the model of power created by President Vladimir Putin in Russia "is inviable because it is built on lies."
A large fire broke out at a polyester-producing plant in the city of Shakhty in Russia's Rostov region that borders Ukraine.
Olga Mikhailova, a self-exiled lawyer of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, said on Facebook on January 16 that Russian prosecutors charged her in absentia with participating in an extremist community because of her association with Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago, only 517 children of some 20,000 who were illegally taken and held in Russia have been returned, Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said.
Renowned Russian poet and essayist Lev Rubenshtein has died in Moscow at the age of 76, his family announced on January 14.
The Russian Orthodox Church on January 13 published a verdict calling for the expulsion of a priest who has made anti-war remarks and who failed to pray for the “victory of Holy Russia,” according to Russian media.
Russia's Justice Ministry has declared prominent writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin, and veteran investigative journalist Aleksandr Minkin as "foreign agents."
A court in Moscow has sent Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov to pretrial detention on charge of justifying terrorism.
Three prominent Russian fencers who openly criticized Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and moved to the United States are seeking U.S. citizenship in hopes of representing the country at the Paris Olympics this year.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a "partial mobilization" in fall 2022, over 300,000 reservists were drafted into the war in Ukraine. A year later, women formed The Way Home initiative to demand that their family members be discharged and sent back home.
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