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A resident of St. Petersburg has been arrested for painting heart shapes on two buildings in what investigators claim was a "sign of love and respect" for Ukraine's armed forces.
The Russian Culture Ministry has denied a distribution certificate to a new film by Aleksandr Sokurov, the award-winning director told Russian media on October 15.
At least 16 Russian citizens died in the attack on October 7 in southern Israel by Hamas -- designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU -- the Russian Embassy in Israel said.
Russia's Justice Ministry has declared Olga Romanova, the founder and head of Russian prisoner advocacy organization Russia Behind Bars, and 11 other activists as foreign agents.
Russia's Defense Ministry says its forces shot down two Ukrainian drones early on October 14 over the Black Sea off the coast of the Krasnodar region.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on October 12 recognized the Holodomor -- the starvation of millions in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Josef Stalin -- as genocide.
Three lawyers who have defended imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny have been detained by law enforcement after their houses were searched, according to associates of the Kremlin critic who added that the lawyers are suspected of participating in an extremist community.
A military court in Moscow ruled on October 11 to send Aleksei Onoshkin, an anti-war activist from the city of Nizhny Novgorod, to a psychiatric clinic.
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine said on October 12 that debris from a drone that was hit by air defense systems fell on a house in Belgorod's outskirts overnight, killing three and severely injuring two people.
A court in Paris has handed suspended six-month prison terms to Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky and his girlfriend for their roles in leaking a sex video that helped upend the Paris mayoral race and bring down a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron in 2020.
A Moscow court on October 11 ordered veteran human rights defender Oleg Orlov to pay a 150,000 ruble ($1,500) fine for the "repetitive discrediting of Russia's armed forces" involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on October 9 that it has launched a probe on a high treason charge against noted Russian lawyer and outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Novikov, saying he "joined Ukrainian territorial defense groups" fighting against Russian troops invading Ukraine.
Vladimir Malov, a local official of the party backed by President Vladimir Putin, was killed in a vehicle explosion in the Russia-occupied city of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, the regional governor and Russian media reported on October 7.
The 15-year-old son of the strongman leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic has been awarded the Hero of Chechnya medal, State Duma Deputy Adam Delimkhanov reported on Telegram on October 6.
The number of Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine is nearly 34,000, according to a tally of names confirmed through open sources by the BBC and Mediazona.
President Vladimir Putin on October 5 said Russia had successfully tested the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile that he has long boasted was under development.
Prominent jailed Russian opposition figures -- including Aleksei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Ilya Yashin -- called on fellow political prisoners and backers to conduct a one-day hunger strike to protest oppression in the country.
Russia and the United States on October 4 confirmed reports that talks were held along with EU officials before Azerbaijan's lightning military operation that allowed it to retake the ethnic Armenian-held breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has been sentenced in absentia to 8 1/2 years in prison for a anti-war demonstration she made in front of the Kremlin last year.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on October 3 that there are no plans for an additional military mobilization for the ongoing invasion of Ukraine
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