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The bodies of recently mobilized Russian soldiers are arriving back home, adding to dismay over the unpopular and clumsy draft process. Now Putin says the "partial" mobilization will soon wrap up -- but not everyone is convinced.
Emergency services in the Russian city of Yeisk say at least four people were killed and six remain missing in the crash of a Russian military jet on October 17 near a residential building, engulfing the high-rise in flames.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has announced that the military mobilization for the war in Ukraine is over for the Russian capital region.
Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who in March protested Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in a live news broadcast, has fled the country after escaping house arrest.
At least 11 people were killed and 15 wounded on October 15 at a military training ground in the Belgorod region of Russia when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
An oil depot in the Belgorod region of Russia bordering Ukraine caught fire after being shelled on October 15, the third consecutive day of strikes on strategic targets in the region.
A 60-year-old Russian woman may face up to five years in prison for what investigators called the desecration of the grave of the parents of President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's financial monitoring service, Rosfinmonitoring, has added U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. to its registry of "terrorists and extremists."
Japanese car manufacturer Nissan has become the latest major multinational corporation to exit Russia, joining dozens of others in an exodus over Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine launched in late February.
A top official in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya said that rockets fired by Russian forces overnight have killed at least 17 people.
Russia on October 7 declared Oxxxymiron, one of the country's most popular rappers, to be a "foreign agent" as it updated its registry to add activists, writers, and journalists, including some who work for RFE/RL.
Russian human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and a Ukrainian delivery nurse from Mariupol, Tetyana Sokolova, have won an international award for their efforts to help people affected by Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza reportedly has been charged with high treason.
Police have searched the Moscow office of Golos (Voice), a movement that monitors elections and defends voters' rights, as well as the homes of the group's members in Moscow and other parts of Russia.
Billionaire Elon Musk has come under heavy criticism for asking his more than 107 million Twitter followers to weigh in on his proposal to end the war in Ukraine under which Ukraine would cede Crimea, allow new referendums on Russian-occupied land, and agree to neutrality.
The team of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny says it will resume operations across Russia despite being banned as "extremist" last year, after which many of the Kremlin critic's associates and supporters fled the country.
The upper chamber of Russia's parliament, the Federation Council, has ratified agreements incorporating four regions of Ukraine into Russia, a further step toward the formal annexation of the territories, which has been met with condemnation from the West.
Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who in March protested Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in a live broadcast, has been placed on the Interior Ministry's wanted list after she allegedly escaped from house arrest.
An 81-year-old Russian scientist placed under house arrest after being charged with high treason two years ago has died.
Russian regulators have reportedly blocked the website of the audio-streaming app SoundCloud, citing "false information" about the war in Ukraine.
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