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The Moscow city court on July 31 rejected appeals filed by theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk against their pretrial detention on charges of justification of terrorism.
A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 30 sentenced antiwar activist Aleksei Gashev to 10 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a military recruitment center in the city of Perm last year with his colleague Mikhail Sokolov.
The Supreme Court of Norway has canceled the acquittal of Andrei Yakunin, the son of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's longtime confidants, who was found not guilty in December of violating a Norwegian law that bars Russian citizens from flying drones in the country.
Poland's Agency for Internal Security (ABW) said on June 30 that a hockey player from Russia who played for a local team had been arrested earlier in June on an espionage charge.
Prominent Russian nationals continue to renounce their citizenship as the Kremlin presses its war in Ukraine.
Ivan Zhdanov, a self-exiled associate of imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, says his 68-year-old father, Yury Zhdanov, who is also imprisoned in a penal colony, is being harassed.
A military court in Moscow sentenced blogger Roman Ushakov on June 29 to eight years in prison over his comments on Telegram on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has declared the Latvia-based Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper an "undesirable" organization amid the government's ongoing crackdown on civil society and independent organizations.
A Moscow court on June 29 sentenced noted media manager Ilya Krasilshchik, who resides in Berlin, to eight years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Lawyer Irina Gak has left Russia for an unspecified country after her client, anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov, died while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group said on June 26.
On June 24, the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, with its 1 million people, endured a tense standoff between the authorities and fighters from the Wagner mercenary group. Locals were stunned to find armored vehicles and armed soldiers taking up positions in their streets.
At least five people were killed in the latest shelling of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, late on June 24 and early June 25, Ukrainian officials said.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has launched a criminal probe after what it said was a "call for an armed mutiny" by Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Moscow says it has detained several people it claims are linked to Ukraine who were trying to buy radioactive material and smuggle it out of the country to cause an incident "to discredit Russia."
A Russian man with diplomatic immunity who was squatting for several days on the site where Moscow wanted to build a new embassy in Canberra has left after Australia’s high court dismissed Russia’s attempt to temporarily hold on to the property near the Australian parliament.
Russia's Supreme Court on June 22 rejected jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's motion against the Justice Ministry over his prison's refusal to allow him to have pen and paper.
Charles University in Prague has opened a master's degree program on the study of Russian and the former Soviet republics, the university in the Czech capital said on June 21.
The Moscow City Court has rejected U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich's appeal against his pretrial detention on charges of espionage, which he, his newspaper The Wall Street Journal, and the U.S. government have strongly denied.
A military court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 21 sentenced anti-war activist Mikhail Sokolov to 11 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a military recruitment center in the city of Perm in December.
Police in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on June 22 searched the homes of the lawyer and public defender of anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov, who died while in custody last week.
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