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Three former fighters of Russia's Wagner private mercenary group who returned to their home region of Volgograd after taking part in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine have been arrested on charges of robbery and extortion.
A court in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, about 140 kilometers northwest of Moscow, on May 12 placed noted Russian physicist and mathematician Sergei Abramov under house arrest on a charge of financing an unspecified extremist group.
A court in Siberia on May 12 sentenced jailed businessman Anatoly Bykov to 11 years in prison for his involvement in ordering the assassination of a rival businessman in 2005.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been placed in a punitive solitary confinement cell for the 15th time since August last year, his Telegram channel said on May 11.
Goods worth at least $1 billion bought by companies in Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan from their partners in the European Union have disappeared while crossing Russia, the Financial Times reported on May 10.
A Moscow court has sentenced a poet to four years in prison for publicly reciting verses condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A 45-year-old Moscow activist, Vitaly Koltsov, went on trial on May 10 on a charge of attempting to murder 12 officers of Russia's National Guard.
Baisangur Yangulbayev, the youngest brother of self-exiled Chechen opposition bloggers Ibragim and Abubakar Yangulbayev, has been added to Russia's federal wanted list.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lifted a ban on direct flights between Russia and Georgia after Tbilisi's de facto withdrawal of direct support for Ukraine.
Poland has transferred 10 MiG-29 jet fighters to Ukraine as Kyiv prepares to launch a counteroffensive, Warsaw announced on May 8.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has presided over a parade to commemorate the end of World War II in Europe even as he pushes ahead with the continent's largest land war since since the conflict ended in 1945.
The Memorial human right group says the head of its branch in the Russian city of Perm, Aleksandr Chernyshov, has been ordered to serve 15 days in jail on a hooliganism charge stemming from his appearance in a Khimki court.
Ukrainian and Russian authorities separately disclosed an apparent exchange of prisoners on May 6, with Kyiv saying 45 of its personnel were being returned while Moscow said three of its pilots were brought back to Russia.
The pro-Kremlin writer and political activist Zakhar Prilepin was wounded in a car bombing in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on May 6, the state-run TASS news agency reported.
A Moscow court ruled on May 5 to send theater director Yevgenia Berkovich to pretrial detention until at least July 4 on suspicion of justification of terrorism in her production of the play Finist -- The Brave Falcon about Russian women who married Muslim men and moved to Syria.
A Moscow court on May 5 arrested a Ukrainian citizen, Crimean Tatar Lenie Umerova, for alleged spying.
The chief of the Memorial human right group's branch in the Russian city of Perm, Aleksandr Chernyshov, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on May 5.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has threatened to pull out all of his mercenary forces from the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a dramatic escalation of his ongoing feud with the Russian Defense Ministry over supplies and support.
A Moscow court on May 4 ordered Yan Dvorkin, the leader of the Center T group which defends LGBT rights in Russia, to pay 100,000 rubles ($1,260) for violating Russia’s controversial law that bans promoting homosexuality.
Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko, in a legal move to challenge EU sanctions imposed on him over Russia's aggression against Ukraine, says his close ties with President Vladimir Putin do not mean that he is allied with the Kremlin in its policy on Ukraine.
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