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More than 80 lawmakers across Russia have signed an open letter demanding Russian President Vladimir Putin stop pressuring jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who has been placed in punitive solitary confinement several times since August.
A Moscow court has ordered the independent newspaper Novaya gazeta to pay a 500,000-ruble ($7,300) fine for publishing a December interview with an Orthodox cleric who condemned Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Germany's Wintershall Dea oil and gas company has left the Russian market, saying "the aggressive war [with Ukraine] is incompatible with our values" and "ruined cooperation between Russian and Europe."
Police in the western Russian city of Lipetsk have shot dead Dmitry Perov, a soldier they were trying to arrest after he deserted with a firearm from fighting in Ukraine, the regional government said.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, marking the second anniversary of his incarceration on charges widely believed to be politically motivated, says he remains hopeful the "thieves" trying to steal the country from its citizens will fail and be dislodged from power.
A group of Russian lawyers has demanded an end to the "blatant torture" of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who is being held in punitive solitary confinement in a prison in Russia's Vladimir region.
A Russian soldier on January 14 detonated a grenade and ignited a fire at a military facility in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border, killing at least three soldiers.
A Russian newspaper says Kremlin political advisers are laying the groundwork for Russian President Vladimir Putin to run for reelection next year amid speculation about his political intentions.
Dissident Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who once promised to return to Moscow in a U.S.-made Abrams tank, has been added to the Interior Ministry's wanted list on unspecified charges.
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.
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