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Russia's Investigative Committee has asked a Moscow court to issue an arrest warrant for Pyotr Verzilov, the publisher of the independent media website Mediazona, for allegedly hiding his dual citizenship.
Russian men mobilized to fight in Ukraine will be able to freeze and store their sperm for free, according to the president of the Union of Lawyers of Russia.
Former student Timur Bekmansurov has been sentenced to life in prison in Russia for killing six people at Perm State University in 2021.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree banning the supply of crude oil to foreign companies and citizens that abide by a $60-per-barrel price cap set by Western allies as a means to squeeze Russian revenue used to fund the war in Ukraine.
Two Russian men, including a wealthy regional legislator, reportedly died at a hotel in the eastern Indian city of Rayagada within a few days of one another under unclear circumstances, local media reported.
Russia's Defense Ministry has confirmed that three military personnel were killed early on December 26 by debris from a downed Ukrainian drone, which was shot down and fell over a military base in Russia's southwestern Saratov region.
President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia seeks to "end the war" in Ukraine and does not refuse to negotiate with Kyiv, but U.S. officials say the opposite is true and Putin has shown no inclination to hold talks.
An employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of sharing state secrets that he obtained in the course of his professional activities with Russia, federal prosecutors say.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked the citizenship of a billionaire of Armenian descent after he eschewed his homeland to move to the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says the leader of the notorious Vagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, recruited dozens of inmates from the penal colony where Navalny is being held.
A court in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk sentenced five Jehovah's Witnesses to prison terms of between six years and three months and 6 1/2 years on extremism charges, a local court said on December 21.
Masked men threw sledgehammers on the grounds of the Finnish Embassy in Moscow on December 20.
The Russian Justice Ministry is seeking the closure of the country’s oldest human rights watchdog, the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), amid a Kremlin campaign to muzzle criticism of the war in Ukraine.
Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved the final reading of a bill criminalizing the desecration of the St. George ribbon, which was banned in Ukraine as a symbol of Russian aggression in 2017.
A 39-year-old Greek citizen, who Austrian media say is the son of a Russian diplomat, is currently under investigation in Vienna on a charge of spying for Russia.
Russian security officials said a Crimean court has sentenced a local man to 12 years in prison for passing data about Russia's navy to Ukrainian intelligence.
The temperature in the Soyuz capsule docked at the International Space Station has risen but the crew is not in danger, the Russian space agency said on December 16.
The head of the Russian House cultural center in Bangui, Central African Republic, has survived an assassination attempt, the Russian Embassy in the city said on December 16.
A court in Russia has handed a prison term to a man for allegedly planning to join the Ukrainian military in its fight against Russian occupying troops.
Russian and NASA engineers are assessing a coolant leak from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.
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