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Aleksandra Shvedchenko, a Russian journalist for the independent Dozhd TV channel who has lived in Tbilisi for the last year, has not been allowed to reenter Georgia after she took a 10-day trip to Latvia.
Lithuania's parliament has designated the Russian armed group Wagner PMC, which is fighting in Ukraine, as a "terrorist organization."
In a closed-door session, a Moscow court on March 13 began to consider the treason case against jailed opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces nearly 25 years in prison for high treason after making comments critical of the Kremlin.
A draft law raising the age of conscription into Russia's army has been submitted to parliament's lower house.
A Moscow court has declared the bankruptcy of RFE/RL's operations in Russia following the company's refusal to pay multiple fines totaling more than 1 billion rubles ($14 million) for noncompliance with the so-called "foreign agents" law.
A documentary tracking jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny as he recovered in Berlin after being poisoned has won this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
Iranian state media reported on March 11 that Tehran has reached a deal to buy advanced SU-35 fighter planes from Russia, citing Iran’s UN mission in New York.
Leonid Volkov, a top associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, says he is suspending his political and public activities after he denied signing a letter arguing for lifting EU sanctions on some London-based Russian oligarchs, only to later admit he lied about his actions.
The Moscow City Court sentenced political scientist Demuri Voronin to 13 years and three months in prison on a high treason charge on March 9.
Leading global tire-producing company Continental says it is planning a "controlled withdrawal" from the Russian market and is in "advanced" talks on selling its plant just outside Moscow.
Amnesty International has recognized as a prisoner of conscience Moscow student Dmitry Ivanov, who was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Moscow's Timiryazev district court on March 6 sentenced Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel, to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 6 that it prevented the assassination of businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, an active supporter of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office announced on March 6 its designation of one of the world's leading anti-corruption nonprofits, German-based Transparency International, as an "undesirable organization."
The Wagner mercenary group fighting along with Russia's regular and conscripted troops in Ukraine has opened at least three new recruiting centers at Russian sports clubs in the past three days, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says.
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska told the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum on March 3 that Russia could run out of money as early as next year without new foreign investment from "friendly countries" and warned government policies are hurting the financial environment.
A lawmaker in the Russian region of Samara who mocked President Vladimir Putin's annual address to lawmakers has been charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Police in Russia's western region of Tula have arrested the father of a girl who last year drew an anti-war picture at school.
An 18-year-old Moscow anti-war activist arrested last week for giving an interview to RFE/RL’s Russian Service, has been threatened and mistreated, his lawyer says.
Russian journalist Yulia Starostina, who worked as a volunteer to help Ukrainian refugees, was fined 50,000 rubles ($660) on February 28 for "discrediting" Russia's armed forces during Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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