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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country did not attack Moscow or Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Russia's claim that Ukraine was behind an alleged overnight drone attack aimed at hitting Putin's residence inside the Kremlin.
Fire, damaging explosions on railways, and a drone attack targeting a military airport have been reported in two Russian regions close to Ukraine, Krasnodar and Bryansk.
A court in Russia's western city of Tula has sentenced two men to 3 1/2 years in prison each for their alleged involvement in a car bombing in August that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of Kremlin-linked far-right ideologue Aleksandr Dugin.
Noted Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin has died at the age of 59, his wife said on May 2.
Russian officials said an explosion was to blame for a freight train derailing not far from the border with Ukraine.
Russian fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev has died, according to media reports confirmed by the Russian Academy of Arts.
U.S. President Joe Biden has met privately with the parents of American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained by Russia on espionage charges.
A Russian court has fined a 65-year-old grandmother from Siberia 1 million rubles ($12,400), the equivalent of about four years of pension payments, for posting on social media the eyewitness accounts of her Ukrainian friends in the days following Russia's invasion.
Russia has put out a massive fire caused by a drone attack at a fuel storage depot in Sevastopol, the main port in the occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea and the home of Moscow's Black Sea Fleet, the region's Kremlin-installed governor said on April 29.
More than 130 internationally recognized writers, artists, and scholars, including six Nobel laureates, have urged the Russian authorities to immediately release opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, emphasizing that he needs "urgent and immediate independent medical help."
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a leading member of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, a liberal think tank, on bribery allegations.
A court of appeals in the Russian capital has rejected the Moscow Helsinki Group's appeal against its liquidation, amid a relentless Kremlin campaign to muzzle criticism of its war against Ukraine.
Police in Moscow have charged confectioner Anastasia Chernysheva with "discrediting" Russia's armed forces involved in the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed bills into law that dramatically increase punishments for citizens opposed to his war in Ukraine and authoritarian rule, his latest move to crush any trace of dissent in the country.
A Moscow court on April 27 fined the Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, 2 million rubles ($24,440) for failing to remove information about a military unit involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
An explosion early in the morning on April 27 in Ukraine's Russian-occupied city of Melitopol killed the Moscow-installed district police chief.
Yevgeny Roizman, the former mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and one of the last prominent opposition figures left in Russia who is not behind bars, went on trial on April 26 on a charge of "repetitively discrediting the armed forces" involved in the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Deputy Prosecutor-General Anatoly Razinkin said on April 26 that 15,000 cases of men being called up to the military illegally had been registered.
A large fire broke out in Sosva, a village in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, killing one person and destroying 90 buildings, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported.
An investigative report by the Vyorstka online newspaper says Russian President Vladimir Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine in early March 2021.
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