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Twenty percent of Ukraine’s protected areas and 3 million hectares of forests have been affected by the war in the country
Russian emergency officials said at least 13 people were killed when a fire erupted in a nightclub northeast of Moscow.
A former Russian citizen of Armenian descent, billionaire Ruben Vardanian, has been appointed to the post of prime minister of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
More than 100 men mobilized to the war in Ukraine from Russia's Chuvashia region have rebelled, demanding overdue salaries promised to them.
The British government has imposed economic sanctions on four Russian businessmen, banning them from entering the U.K. and freezing any assets they hold in Britain.
RFE/RL asked people in Moscow how they thought the war in Ukraine -- which Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains is a "special military operation" -- is going.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for the seventh time since August for what he says are politically motivated reasons.
Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov has been hospitalized in Moscow with a traumatic brain injury and a fractured leg after falling under mysterious circumstances.
Moscow and Chisinau exchanged diplomatic expulsions after a Russian missile that was shot down by Ukraine fell in a Moldovan village
Activists have broken into the five-story Amsterdam home of sanctioned Russian technology tycoon Arkady Volozh and say they plan to use it as a temporary shelter for students and other young individuals.
Small gatherings have been held in several Russian cities to mark the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, even as the Russian government continues carrying out the harshest crackdown on dissent in the post-Soviet period.
Ukraine and Russia have carried out another prisoner exchange, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff announced on October 29, saying the action resulted in the release of 52 Ukrainian citizens.
Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of a series of amendments to the country's controversial "gay propaganda" law, an expansion of the legislation that rights activists say has put LGBT people at risk and led to increased discrimination and violence.
A court in Russia's northwestern city of Arkhangelsk has sentenced a former associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to 30 months in prison on a charge of rehabilitating Nazism.
Russian journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has reportedly left Russia to avoid possible arrest.
A lawmaker from Vladivostok who fled Russia after it invaded Ukraine has received asylum in the United States.
A court in Prague has acquitted a Russian citizen who was accused of taking part in Moscow's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.
The Russian-appointed head of Ukraine's Kherson region has announced that the civilian population will be evacuated from part of the region as he warned of an expected escalation of hostilities.
An appeals court in Moscow has rejected jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's move to have his nine-year prison sentence on charges of financial fraud and contempt of court struck down.
Russian authorities say the death toll in the crash of a Russian military jet during a training flight near a residential building has risen to at least 15 people as first responders ended their search operations.
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