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State prosecutors have requested that a Russian court sentence jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to another 20 years in a penal colony on charges that include extremism.
Russia's State Museum in St. Petersburg has canceled an exhibition of works by artists from the Timur Novikov New Academy, citing "pornography propaganda," which it says was prevalent in some of the paintings.
The United States announced a $1.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine that includes advanced antiaircraft missile systems and other equipment after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of launching a "deliberate" attack on grain infrastructure at the port of Odesa..
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said on July 17 that damage caused to a major rail and road bridge linking Russia with the Crimean Peninsula will be completely repaired by November 1, while President Vladimir vowed "a response" to the attack, which killed two people.
The Russian state has taken control of shares in the Russian subsidiary of French food producer Danone, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on July 16.
Another Russian general has reportedly been fired in the latest shake-up in the military since Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a short-lived mutiny three weeks ago.
A Russian soldier on July 13 was convicted of insubordination. An independent Russian news outlet reports he was among a group of conscripts held in a cellar for refusing to fight in Ukraine.
Police have carried out searches of the houses of two former employees of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's headquarters in the cities of Tambov and Tver for unspecified reasons.
Russia's State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on July 13 that bans surgical operations "aimed at changing the sex of a person" and the changing of the gender marker in documents.
Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said that he and CIA counterpart William Burns had discussed Ukraine in a phone call last month, TASS said on July 12.
Russia’s Investigative Committee says a suspect in the killing of Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy chief of the department for mobilization in Krasnodar, has been detained.
Six people were killed in a blast at an explosives factory in the central Russian region of Samara, TASS reported, citing emergency services.
Russian investigators have opened a criminal probe into an attack on award-winning journalist Yelena Milashina, who was badly beaten in Chechnya on July 4 along with lawyer, Aleksandr Nemov, while the two were on a trip to the Caucasus region.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny tweeted on July 5 that lyrics from popular Russian hip-hop artist Morgenshtern have been entered as evidence in his current closed-door trial in which he faces an additional three decades in prison on charges of “extremism.”
An award-winning Russian investigative journalist from Novaya Gazeta and a lawyer were badly beaten by armed men during a trip to Chechnya, the human rights group Team Against Torture reported on July 4.
Family members of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny have officially sued the penal colony where he is being held for not allowing them access to him.
Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK) has added British consumer goods company Unilever to its list of sponsors of war.
A memorial has been unveiled in the Kyiv region city of Bucha to memorialize the civilians who died there while it was occupied by Russian forces in the early part of 2022.
Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group, which carried out a short-lived mutiny on June 23-24, has stopped all recruitment.
Russia's Justice Ministry has declared veteran rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, who currently resides outside of Russia, a "foreign agent."
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