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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.
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.
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