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Nuclear physicist Grigory Klinishov, one of the creators of the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb known as RDS-37, was found dead in Moscow on June 22.
A court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced an employee of the Federal Nuclear Center to nine years in prison on June 21 on a charge of treason.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 21 that it has launched a probe into the death in custody of 40-year-old anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don last week.
Lithuanian lawmakers have initiated a process to take away the citizenship of Moscow-born figure skater Margarita Drobiazko over her participation in an event in Russia in August 2022, Lithuania's National Radio and Television reported on June 21.
The Moscow City Court on June 26 sentenced Russian physicist Valery Golubkin to 12 years in prison on a treason charge.
An explosion hit a major gunpowder plant in Russia's southwestern region of Tambov on June 20, killing four people.
An 82-year-old Russian writer was charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine after speaking to a man while selling his books in a park in the city of Perm.
An activist from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has been released from pretrial detention where he was placed in April after being interviewed by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and helping him before the U.S. journalist himself was arrested on espionage charges.
A Russian court sentenced former Ukrainian fighter Denys Muryha on June 20 to 16 years in prison on charges of offering military training to conduct terrorist acts, and joining a paramilitary group called Aydar, which fought against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
General Electric (GE) has stopped servicing GE-made gas turbines installed at Russian thermal power plants with extended sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine coming into force.
The Russian Prosecutor's Office has designated prominent human rights group Agora, which has provided political and rights activists with legal advice, as "an undesirable organization" and banned its operations in the country.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don handed prison terms to four residents of Ukraine's Russian-annexed Crimea on June 19 on terrorism charges.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny faces an additional three decades behind bars in a new trial on extremism charges that started on June 19.
Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced in April to 25 years in prison after being convicted of state treason, said on June 18 that prison authorities have stopped delivering letters to him.
The delegation of African leaders visiting St. Petersburg for talks with President Vladimir Putin said the war in Ukraine not only affects Russia and the region but is also taking its toll on the rest of the world.
A project of the BBC and independent Russian media outlet Mediazona says it has confirmed the deaths of 25,528 Russian troops in the war with Ukraine.
Former Moscow policeman Maksim Zlobov turned in his badge after attending an anti-war rally. He says he fled Russia in April after a new law was passed making it more difficult to avoid conscription. He joins the hundreds of thousands of others who have left wartime Russia.
The Chamber of Attorneys in Moscow has stripped well-known Russian lawyer and outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Novikov of his license to practice law for "behavior that disrupts trust."
Roman Starovoit, the governor of Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine, said on June 16 that it appears a drone hit a local factory producing pillows and blankets causing a fire at the facility.
A Moscow court on June 15 ordered veteran Russian rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, who currently resides outside of Russia, to pay a fine of 50,000 rubles ($600) for discrediting Russia's armed forces.
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