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The Supreme Court of Russia's Mari El Republic ruled on August 21 to shut down the Man and the Law rights group citing the nongovernmental organization’s 'involvement in political activities."
A 32-year-old postgraduate student from Gabon has been stabbed to death in a cafe in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg, with witnesses calling it "a racially motivated attack."
Intense fighting has been reported in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, with Defense Minister Hanna Malyar claiming "success" as Kyiv continues its counteroffensive to regain territory occupied by Russian forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived on August 21 in Greece for talks with the country's leaders and to attend an informal meeting of representatives of Balkan countries and top European Union officials.
A Moscow court has ordered a transgender woman, Katerina Maiyers, to pay 300,000 rubles ($3,170) for attempting to violate an order forbidding her to leave Russia over a case involving the possession of classified information.
Two major Moscow airports temporarily suspended flight arrivals and departures on August 21 following claims by the Defense Ministry that a Ukrainian drone had been shot down over the Moscow region.
Russia’s Prosecutor General has filed a lawsuit to confiscate a power asset belonging to one of the country’s richest men, claiming his purchase of the company five years ago was corrupt, local media reported.
Supporters of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny around the world are marking the third anniversary of his near-fatal poisoning with demonstrations against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Justice Ministry on August 18 added seven more individuals to its foreign agents list, including prominent Kremlin critics Andrei Piontkovsky, Andrei Illarionov, and Linor Goralik.
Russia's Internal Affairs Ministry says it has limited the authority of Interpol, the world's leading international law enforcement organization.
The Basmansky district court of Moscow said on August 18 that the co-chairman of the Golos movement, Grigory Melkonyants, has been ordered into pretrial detention until October 17 on a charge of "running an undesirable organization," which carries a sentence of up to six years in prison.
After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 27-year-old Russian soldier Fyodor was shocked by the scale of the losses. He quit the military and moved to Argentina with his wife, Olena, and scrapes out a living there as a cleaner.
The Moscow City Court has shut the Sakharov Center, a prominent human rights organization dedicated to upholding civil liberties in Russia, saying it illegally hosted events outside of the capital, released videos lacking a foreign agent label, and committed other administrative discrepancies.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has interrogated two children -- a 9-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy -- while investigating a criminal case related to their mother's alleged defamation of the Russian military.
The board of directors of the shuttered independent Russian broadcaster Ekho Moskvy have voted down a proposal to extend the radio station's trademark.
A Moscow court has arrested a dual U.S.-Russian citizen on suspicion of espionage, Russian news agencies reported on August 17.
A Russian teenager arrested for publicly burning a Koran in the southwestern region of Volgograd and kept in pretrial detention in Chechnya says he was beaten in a jail cell by Adam Kadyrov, the 15-year-old son of Chechnya's authoritarian leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on August 16 recognized the Warsaw-registered group For A Free Russia, which assists Russian citizens who face persecution at home and seek asylum abroad, as "an undesirable organization."
The first flight of a new spacecraft produced by the Russian state space agency Roskosmos has been postponed to 2028, according to Russian media reports quoting chief designer Vladimir Kozhevnikov.
The investigative news outlet The Insider has revealed alleged attempts to poison two Russian journalists and a civil activist who have fled the country.
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