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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region as fighting appeared to cease around Russia's Belgorod region a day after armed fighters from inside Ukraine launched one of the largest cross-border incursions since the start of the war.
A Russian contract soldier who resigned from the military after serving one month in Ukraine has been sentenced to three years in prison following an appeal.
More than 100 Nobel Prize laureates have signed a letter calling for the release of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski.
Russia’s Federal Security Service has detained a 19-year-old resident of Chechnya who sought to flee to Kazakhstan after he faced potential criminal charges for his unwillingness to serve in Ukraine.
Russia has issued an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court prosecutor who prepared a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing the Kremlin leader of being responsible for the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine, which constitutes a war crime.
A court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has ordered the city's former mayor and outspoken Kremlin critic, Yevgeny Roizman, to pay a fine of 260,000 rubles ($3,230) for "repeatedly discrediting the armed forces" involved in the invasion of Ukraine.
Police have searched the homes of at least seven members of the Memorial human right group's successor -- the Center of Historic Memory -- in the Russian city of Perm.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, on May 18 approved in the final reading a bill legalizing elections planned for later this year on Ukrainian territories that Moscow took over in its ongoing invasion.
Veteran Russian rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, who currently resides out of Russia, has been charged with discrediting Russian armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The prosecution has asked a court in Russia's Ural city of Yekaterinburg to fine the city’s former mayor and outspoken Kremlin critic Yevgeny Roizman, for "repetitively discrediting the armed forces" involved in the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
Police in Russia have searched the homes of several politicians and a journalist who allegedly have ties with fugitive former lawmaker Ilya Ponomaryov, who currently resides in Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of justifying terrorism and inciting hatred.
A Moscow court has sentenced a Colombian citizen to five years and two months in prison on charge of distributing "fake" news about Russia's armed forces.
The chief of Vektor, one of Russia's leading virology centers, has been fired over "conflicts of interest" and "losing trust."
A Moscow court has issued arrest warrants for noted film directors Aleksandr Rodnyanskiy and Ivan Vyrypayev on charges of "discrediting Russian armed forces" involved in Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Russian authorities have suspended the release of an award-winning film about a serial killer who targets sex workers in Iran.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's wife has lost her job at NRW.Global Business, a trade and investment agency of North Rhine-Westphalia, after she and her husband attended a Victory Day event at the Russian Embassy in Berlin on May 9.
Natalia Arno, the U.S.-based chief of the Free Russia Foundation, says there are suspicions she may have been poisoned, "possibly by some nerve agent," after falling ill during a recent trip to Europe, amid reports that at least two other Kremlin critics have experienced similar episodes since 2020.
Scholars at the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences say another noted physicist, aerodynamics expert Valery Zvegintsev, was arrested in April on a treason charge.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Moscow’s state-run Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum to hand over the country's ancient Trinity icon, by medieval painter Andrei Rublyov, to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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