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Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is serving an 8 1/2-year prison term for his criticism of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, has been sent to solitary confinement for five days.
Russian police have conducted raids on LGBT-friendly clubs and saunas in Moscow, the Caution, News site reported on its Telegram channel.
A second train has exploded on Russia's major railway line in the Siberian region of Buryatia in recent days.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on December 1 appointed Kremlin-friendly conductor Valery Gergiev to the post of director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, one day after Vladimir Urin left the post without explanation.
A military court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don on November 30 sentenced Ukrainian soldier Pavlo Zaporozhets to 12 years in prison on terrorism charges.
The Moscow city court rejected appeals by theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk against an extension of their pretrial detention on charges of justifying terrorism with the production of the play Finist-The Brave Falcon.
A disabled Muscovite was sentenced to 10 days in jail for writing "No to war" in the snow.
Russian activists have made a last-ditch attempt to stymie a controversial government case that many fear could force LGBT organizations in the country to shut down.
The governor of Russia's Voronezh region, Aleksandr Gusev, on December 4 confirmed that Major General Vladimir Zavadsky died last week in Ukraine.
The Moscow prosecutor's office said on November 29 that an arrest warrant had been issued for Ukrainian Eurovison Song Contest winner Jamala, who is of Crimean Tatar origin, on a charge of distributing "fake" information about Russia's armed forces,
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service said that Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen who is serving a 16-year espionage sentence, was assaulted by another inmate, an attack prison officials said was sparked by "political differences" but that Whelan's family said was likely due to anti-American sentiment.
Espanola, a military unit within the Redut network, is hiring women as fighters in its assault detachments, the media outlet iStories reported on November 28.
Russian academic Sergei Abramov, a noted scientist, mathematician, and a leading expert on supercomputers who is charged with financing an unspecified extremist group, will reportedly be sent to a psychiatric clinic for three weeks for an examination.
Russia's Interior Ministry has outlined a bill that would oblige foreigners visiting the country to sign what it called a "loyalty agreement," the state news agency TASS said.
Russia's capital will more than double its spending on video-surveillance equipment next year, the budget approved by the Moscow City Duma shows.
Russia's Justice Ministry asked the Supreme Court to designate the "international LGBT movement" as extremist, effectively banning gay and lesbian organizations in Russia — never mind the fact that no such organization exists.
Three leading actors from the Voronezh Chamber Theater in western Russia have resigned in protest at the dismissal of the theater's artistic director for his stance against Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Russia is to introduce legislation that will impose fines of up to 500,000 rubles ($5,660) on third parties that "intentionally or unintentionally" promote or distribute materials produced by "foreign agent" entities without appropriately labeling them, Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko said.
Russia's Supreme Court has issued a ruling confirming the right of a mobilized Russian man to perform alternative civil service.
The European border protection agency Frontex plans to send 50 border guards and other staff to Finland to bolster the country's border security after an increase in the number of asylum seekers crossing from Russia.
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