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Russian authorities have started a preliminary investigation into a video published on a Telegram channel linked to the private Russian mercenary group Vagner that shows the brutal death by sledgehammer of a fighter who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side in the war against Russia.
Two freelance correspondents working for RFE/RL's Russian Service who were detained on November 14 while interviewing people on the streets of Moscow have been released.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is seeking a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport on an anti-doping case against Russian figure skater Kamila Valiyeva.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the highest-ranking Russian official attending the G20 summit in Indonesia, has appeared in a video wearing shorts and a T-shirt to prove he is healthy after media reports said he had been hospitalized upon arriving in Bali for the gathering.
Moscow police have detained two freelance correspondents working for RFE/RL's Russian Service on November 13 while they were interviewing people on the streets of the country's capital.
A Telegram channel with close ties to the private Russian mercenary group Vagner has published a video of a fighter who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side in Russia's war against Ukraine being killed with a sledgehammer.
Russian media have quoted a friend as saying Gerard Depardieu is closing his PTS ZhD film production center in Russia, where the controversial French actor maintained friendly ties to President Vladimir Putin for over a decade and obtained citizenship in 2013.
A Russia-installed official in Ukraine's occupied city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhya region has survived an apparent assassination attempt.
Amnesty International has accused Russia of committing war crimes, and "likely" crimes against humanity, through the forcible transfer and deportation of civilians from Ukraine.
Former Ukrainian lawmaker Aleksei Remenyuk, who was known for his pro-Russia stance, has died in a traffic accident in Ukraine's Russia-annexed Crimea.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered Russian troops to withdraw from the right bank of the Dnieper River in the partially occupied Kherson region of Ukraine, another retreat amid a number of setbacks for Moscow on battlefields in Ukraine's east and southeast.
The Russian-installed deputy governor of Ukraine's Kherson region, one of the highest profile occupation figures, has reportedly died in a traffic accident.
Russian art teacher Ilya Farber has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a military conscription center in the region of Udmurtia in May.
Russia's Interior Ministry has added Dmitry Kolezev, the chief editor of the online newspaper Republic, to its wanted list, saying he is a suspect in an unspecified case.
Viktor Cherkesov, an old associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former chief of the Federal Drugs Control Service (FKSN), has died at the age of 72.
German officials have searched branches of the Swiss bank UBS in Frankfurt and Munich as part of an investigation into Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who is suspected of money laundering and other crimes.
Police in Germany have impounded 30 paintings -- include works by French modernist Marc Chagall -- from a yacht belonging to one of Russia's richest people, Alisher Usmanov, who has been slapped with Western sanctions over his close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
A court in Moscow has sent opposition activist Ilya Povyshev to jail for 25 days and ordered him to pay a 50,000-ruble fine for holding a picket on November 7 to protest against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of opposition politician Ilya Yashin until November 26.
Russian journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has reportedly returned to Russia, almost two weeks after she left to avoid possible arrest.
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