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Russian poet and longtime RFE/RL Russian Service journalist Aleksei Tsvetkov has died in Israel at the age of 75.
The German industrial and technology group Siemens AG says it will fully stop operations and leave the Russian market over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the latest blow to an economy already ravaged by international sanctions and the exodus of hundreds of firms.
Former Russian Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2017 for bribery, has been released from prison after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court ruling last month that accepted his request for early parole.
The trial of Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Krai whose arrest in 2020 caused monthslong protests in the region, has opened in a Russian court.
A Moscow court has ordered the arrest in absentia of Aleksandr Nevzorov, one of Russia's most well-known TV journalists and a Kremlin critic, amid a crackdown on dissent that has intensified since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine more than two months ago.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says he will be transferred to a notorious prison, where inmates are reported to have been tortured, once his latest custodial sentence takes effect.
Russian authorities have added one of the country's most well-known TV journalists and Kremlin critics to their wanted list amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent that has intensified since Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine more than two months ago.
A coalition of 25 international human rights organizations has called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to condemn the arrest by Russian authorities of outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Pope Francis said in an interview published on May 3 that he has asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but had not received a reply.
A railroad bridge has partially collapsed in Russia’s western Kursk region, which borders northeastern Ukraine, the region’s governor said on May 1.
From "I think the West is doing the right thing" to "They hate Russia," people in Moscow told RFE/RL why they believe the West is supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov, who has called Moscow's war against Ukraine "crazy," has sold his stake in the company he founded to a firm controlled by Vladimir Potanin, a tycoon close to President Vladimir Putin.
A court in Russia has ruled that former Russian Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev, who is serving an eight-year prison term on corruption charges, can be granted an early release.
An activist in Russia's second-largest city has been handed a prison term for allegedly attacking a police officer during a rally against Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow continues to benefit from Europe's energy dependence on Russian oil despite a reduction in sales due to sanctions imposed to pressure it to end its war against Ukraine, according to experts with a Finland-based research organization.
A Russian court has sentenced the former governor of the Sakhalin Oblast to 15 years in prison after convicting him on corruption charges for the second time in four years.ru
Russian scientist Roman Kovalyov, convicted and sentenced to a lengthy prison term in 2020 on a high-treason charge that he and his supporters rejected, has died of cancer.
Russia's Interior Ministry has added two more associates of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to the federal wanted list.
Washington and Moscow have completed a prisoner swap involving Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, jailed on U.S. drug-smuggling charges, and former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, jailed on charges of assaulting police, despite deteriorating diplomatic relations over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
From "When Putin leaves" or "When Putin dies," to "We need to throw more powerful weapons in there," or "Ukraine should be completely wiped off the face of the Earth," RFE/RL asked Moscow residents when they think the military confrontation with Ukraine will end.
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