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Russia has recorded its first official case of the so-called Kraken subvariant of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the Rospotrebnadzor state monitoring agency reporting on January 12.
Prison authorities have refused to transfer Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny from punitive confinement to the penal colony's infirmary to get treatment for flu symptoms, according to social media posts on January 11 by people close to the opposition politician.
Russia has again replaced the commander of its forces in Ukraine in a reshuffle announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov to oversee the invasion.
A group of Russian doctors have published an open letter urging President Vladimir Putin "to stop torturing" jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who is now in punitive solitary confinement for the 10th time since August.
The independent Russian-language Dozhd TV channel, which was suspended in Russia over its war coverage and then yanked by Latvian authorities in December, has been given a license to broadcast in the Netherlands, according to editor in chief Tikhon Dzyadko.
Two people were killed in a plane crash in Russia's Nenets Autonomous Region, north of the Arctic Circle, on January 9.
Five Russian citizens have been stranded at the Seoul airport after South Korean authorities rejected their requests for political asylum, local media reported on January 9.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says he has been placed in a punitive solitary confinement cell for the 10th time since August.
A Belarusian opposition leader says Belarusian authorities may soon begin a mobilization to provide military assistance to Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Russian lawyer Leonid Krikun, who gained prominence by defending opposition and civil right activists in high-profile cases, has fled Russia, fearing for his safety.
Prosecutors in Poland have charged two men, a Belarusian and a Russian, with spying for Russia's military intelligence, the GRU, a spokeswoman of the Polish Prosecutor-General’s Office said on December 4.
Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) says its officers and counterparts from Russia's Federal Security Service have apprehended 18 alleged members of a criminal group.
Forecasters in Moscow are predicting severe cold weather for the January 6-10 period.
Ruslan Khasbulatov, a Russian politician whose dramatic standoff with then-President Boris Yeltsin in 1993 led to the deadly shelling of the parliament building in Moscow, an event that transformed post-Soviet Russia's political trajectory, has died at the age of 80.
Prominent Soviet-era Russian dissident Viktor Fainberg has died at the age of 91, his children said on January 3. Fainberg was among eight dissidents who protested in Moscow in August 1968 against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
French liquefied natural gas containers manufacturer Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has joined dozens of other international companies in announcing the suspension of its operations over Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Former women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, who holds dual Russian-Swiss citizenship, will compete on Switzerland's female grandmasters' team as of January 1, 2024, the Swiss Chess Federation said.
Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a temporary military barracks in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region after the Kremlin, in a rare battlefield admission, acknowledged that scores of its soldiers had been killed at a site in the city of Makiyivka.
The Russian Interior Ministry has put a "wanted" notice out on six purported members of the Vagner mercenary group who may have escaped from a training camp in an occupied region of Ukraine over a week ago.
A backup power line to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has been disconnected due to damage caused by shelling, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement on December 30.
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