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Authorities in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don, near the Ukrainian border, have cancelled scheduled summer concerts of several popular rock groups over their public statements condemning Moscow's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A German court has fined a man for wearing a T-shirt with the letter "Z" -- a sign of support for Russia's war against Ukraine -- stenciled on it. The 49-year-old naturalized German citizen, who moved from Russia to Germany in 1992, was ordered to pay 1,500 euros.
A Russian court on March 22 sentenced the former chief of the Investigative Committee directorate in Volgograd, Mikhail Muzrayev, to 20 years in prison on a charge of organizing the attempted assassination of the regional governor, Andrei Bocharov, in 2016.
A court of appeals in the Italian city of Milan has approved a motion to extradite Artyom Uss, the son of the governor of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai region, to the United States, where he may face up to 30 years in prison on charges of sanctions evasion and money laundering.
An investigation has been opened into the head of the disbanded Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, Oleg Orlov, over the alleged discrediting of Russian forces involved in the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the group said on March 21.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are holding a second day of talks in Moscow, where the Chinese leader is on his first visit in four years amid Moscow's deepening international isolation over its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has declared the Institute for Statecraft of Great Britain an "undesirable" organization amid an ongoing crackdown on international and domestic NGOs, civil society, and independent journalists.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on March 20 that it has started investigating International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan and the court's three judges after an arrest warrant was issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.
Officers from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) raided two Moscow bars, temporarily detaining dozens of workers and customers, after its owners last year allegedly held a fund-raising event for a Ukrainian group.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on March 17 labeled Poland-registered Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum "an undesirable organization."
A court in Russia’s western region of Tver has sentenced a couple to prison terms for condemning Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine online.
A court in Russia's city of Tolyatti on March 17 sentenced Andrei Balin, a former co-chairman of the opposition Parnas party's local branch, to seven years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Russia's Supreme Court on March 16 labeled as a terrorist organization the Free Russia legion, an armed group consisting of Russian citizens that fights alongside Ukraine's armed forces against invading Russian armed forces.
The former police chief of the Kizlyar district of Daghestan, Gazi Isayev, was found guilty of involvement in the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro in 2010 and sentenced to life in prison by the Second Western Military Court in Moscow on March 16.
The Russian mercenary group Wagner has placed advertisements on Pornhub, the world’s largest pornographic website, as it tries to recruit fighters to reinforce its troops fighting as part of the Kremlin's war against Ukraine.
The former mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, who is under investigation on a controversial charge of "discrediting the armed forces" involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has been detained again, his lawyer Vladislav Idamzhapov said on March 16.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for noted media manager Ilya Krasilshchik, who lives in Berlin.
Russian parliament's upper chamber has approved a bill expanding the Kremlin's wartime censorship measures to include punishment for anyone considered to have discredited "volunteer" forces such as so-called private military groups involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed as "complete nonsense" allegations that pro-Ukrainian activists with no ties to the state could be behind the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
A replica of the concrete punishment cell that Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny is periodically placed in has been unveiled on a square in Paris.
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