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Russia's Justice Ministry has added several more names to its list of so-called "foreign agents."
Dozens of people have been detained in the city of Korkino about 35 kilometers from the southern Russian city of Chelyabinsk after mass riots on October 24.
The death of Anton Selivanets, a Russian aircraft engineer, has been confirmed following the downing of a cargo plane in war-torn Sudan.
In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Russia’s “foreign agent” law violates the European Convention on Human Rights, saying it is "arbitrary" and used in an "overly broad and unpredictable way."
Moscow's Basmanny district court on October 21 sentenced Oscar-nominated film producer Oleksandr Rodnyanskiy to 8 1/2 years jail in absentia for spreading "fake" information about the Russian military.
Russia has not returned the body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna to her homeland, despite promising to do so, according to a rights group. Roshchyna died while in Russian captivity.
Ukraine is reported to have launched numerous drones at Moscow and western regions of Russia with a strike reported on an industrial zone where a key arms manufacturer is located, a day after Ukrainian drones reportedly targeted a key microelectronic plant that is key to Russia’s military.
South Korea claims Pyongyang began moving special forces to Russia earlier this month, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a similar accusation that North Korea has sent soldiers and weapons to help support the Kremlin in its war against Ukraine.
Russia's State Duma on October 17 passed a bill in its first reading that would ban “childfree propaganda,” marking the latest expansion of the government’s efforts to regulate social discourse.
The Russian government has approved a measure that cuts the quota for residence permits for foreigners in 2025 by almost half even as the number of workers entering the country has fallen to a 10-year low, exacerbating an acute labor shortage.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he had been briefed by Ukrainian intelligence services about what he described as North Korea's effective involvement in Russia's war in his country.
Six Russian soldiers who sought to escape mobilization for the war in Ukraine have arrived in France after first fleeing to Kazakhstan.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were holding off attempts by Russian troops to expel them from the Kursk region, following a 24-hour period in which Russian shelling killed at least five Ukrainian civilians.
Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed has been sentenced in absentia by a Russian court to 14 1/2 years in prison, on charges he joined the Ukrainian Army as a mercenary.
A Russian strike on an industrial plant in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, killed at least two people, local officials said, as NATO's new chief warned that Ukraine could be facing its roughest winter since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Russia's Federal Security Service has accused Ilya Zhuravlyov, the director of two medical centers in the Ulyanovsk region, of promoting Satanism as part of a broader campaign to spread LGBT propaganda.
A Ukrainian drone strike on the largest fuel depot in occupied Crimea early on October 7 triggered a huge fire that prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people as Russia and Ukraine exchanged another series of drone attacks.
The head of security at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine was killed in a car bombing on October 4.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on October 4 visited the northeastern Sumy region and spoke with military commanders and soldiers who have fought along Ukraine's border with Russia and in Russia's Kursk region.
The trial of four Russian journalists associated with the late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny -- including two who have worked for the international news agencies Reuters and the Associated Press -- has begun behind closed doors in Moscow’s Nagatino District Court.
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