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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.
Nikita Zhuravel, a Russian political prisoner who was beaten by the teenage son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov while in pretrial detention, has been charged with high treason.
Ukraine's Prosecutor-General’s Office has initiated an investigation into what it describes as the "largest mass execution" of Ukrainian "prisoners of war" by Russian troops since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion more than 31 months ago.
Russian opposition politician and outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny, who died in prison in February, might have been poisoned, the Insider investigative group said, citing official documents that appear to have been edited to conform with the state's contention he died from cardiac issues.
A Moscow court on September 30 sentenced a man to life in prison after finding him guilty of attempting to murder pro-Kremlin writer and political activist Zakhar Prilepin.
An explosion and en ensuing fire at a gas station in Russia's Daghestan region has killed 13 people, including two children, and injured 11, Russia's Emergencies Ministry reported on September 28.
Prosecutors asked a military court in Moscow on September 27 to sentence a man suspected of attempted murder of pro-Kremlin writer and political activist Zakhar Prilepin to life in prison.
A military court in Moscow on September 26 sentenced Russian actor Aleksei Panin, who currently resides in the United States, to six years in prison in absentia on a charge of justifying terrorism.
German lawmakers have expressed concerns over a recent report by a Belarusian website that activists jailed by Minsk on administrative charges were sent to work at onion plantations belonging to a company led by a German lawmaker who belongs to the far-right populist Alternative for Germany party
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