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Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has reportedly recruited almost 1,000 inmates from two penal colonies in the southwestern Rostov region, promising them early release if they fight in Moscow's war against Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has dropped a case against an independent municipal lawmaker over his post on Facebook related to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
LUKoil, Russia's largest private oil company and one of the few to voice opposition to the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, says its chairman has died following a "serious illness," disputing local media reports that he had plunged to his death from a hospital window.
A court in Switzerland has fined three members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group for attempting to paint anti-war graffiti on the curb of a road in Bern.
The former director-general of the Internews Foundation in Russia, Manana Aslamazian, has died at the age of 70 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Aleksei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition politician, says he has been sent to solitary confinement for the third time this month as a punishment for his political activities.
Russian opposition politician Leonid Gozman has been handed a 15-day jail term on a charge of equating Soviet-era Russia with Nazi Germany.
The prosecution has asked a Moscow court to convict and sentence Ivan Safronov, a prominent former journalist, to 24 years in prison in a high-profile treason case that is widely considered to be politically motivated.
The team of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has published a list of Russian officials, journalists, and celebrities it says should be sanctioned immediately for pushing the Kremlin's narrative in its ongoing unprovoked war against.
Police in Switzerland briefly detained three members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group as they tried to paint anti-war graffiti on the curb of a road.
Lithuania says it has completed a steel wall stretching along the border with Belarus to stop the flow of illegal migrants after tens of thousands, mostly from the Middle East, tried to enter the country and fellow EU-member states Poland and Latvia, from Belarusian territory last year.
Former Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Kovalyov, who joined the Russia-imposed Kherson regional government after Russian armed forces took over parts of Ukraine's southeast, has been found dead.
The Russian investigative group Proyekt (Project) has concluded that high treason charges against Ivan Safronov, a prominent former journalist on trial for allegedly giving secret materials to foreign agents, are "baseless."
The Russian Foreign Ministry has suspended the issuance of biometric foreign passports for “technical reasons,” the ministry said in an August 26 statement.
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, has asked the Investigative Committee to check a report by the newspaper Fontanka about the recruitment of inmates in penitentiaries to fight in the war launched against Ukraine.
A Russian court released former Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman from detention but ordered him not to communicate with anyone without permission as it imposed pretrial restrictions a day after police arrested the outspoken Kremlin critic.
A founder and former chief of the Committee Against Torture in Russia has been hospitalized after being attacked by an unidentified assailant, who is in police custody.
A $75 million superyacht owned by sanctioned Russian steel tycoon Dmitry Pumpyansky has been sold at an auction in Gibraltar, the first sale of a Russian oligarch's assets seized since Moscow launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in late February.
The Moscow-appointed mayor of the Russia-occupied Ukrainian town of Mykhaylivka, Ivan Sushko, has been killed by a car bomb.
Russian authorities have canceled the performance of a rock group at a Moscow festival after the lead singer dedicated a song to other artists who fled the country following the invasion of Ukraine.
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