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The European Union has blocked cars registered in Russia and Belarus from entering the bloc, Russia’s Federal Customs Service said.
Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, has blocked two more independent media websites amid a crackdown over coverage of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has declared the British think tank Chatham House an "undesirable" organization amid its ongoing crackdown on international and domestic NGOs, media, and democratic institutions.
Funeral services have been held for Russian ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died this week at the age of 75 after a prolonged illness.
Italian media say unknown activists have vandalized two villas in Italy that belong to leading pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.
Dmitry Muratov, the editor in chief of one of Russia's leading independent newspapers, Novaya gazeta, said he was attacked by an assailant who threw a mixture of red paint and acetone on him.
The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a bill that will help President Joe Biden send weapons and other supplies to Ukraine as it tries to defend itself from an invasion by Russia.
Noted Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius has been killed in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where there has been weeks of heavy fighting since Russian invaded the country last month.
The trial of Ivan Safronov, a prominent former Russian journalist accused of high treason in a case widely considered as politically motivated, has started.
Gerard Depardieu, the French actor who sought Russian citizenship nearly a decade ago to escape French taxes, has strongly criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin for his decision to invade Ukraine.
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko's concert in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has been cancelled after she condemned Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine has denied responsibility for a fiery blast at a civilian oil storage facility on Russian territory.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree forcing some purchasers of Russian gas to set up a special account to pay for their supplies as the country tries to cope with the impact of Western sanctions imposed because of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month.
A member of the Pussy Riot protest group says she was held by Belarusian security officials and forced to record a message of support for authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
A Moscow city councilor and outspoken critic of Russia's invasion of Ukraine says her apartment door has been marked with a Z-shaped sticker bearing the slogan "Collaborator. Do not sell out the Motherland" in an attempt to intimidate her.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow has accredited the first diplomat from Taliban-led Afghanistan even though Russia has labeled the militant group a terrorist organization and most of the world has shunned the hard-line regime.
Russia's Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal filed by jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny against a court decision to change a suspended prison term he was handed several years ago into a real prison time last year.
Noted Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov has left Russia after a court canceled the suspended three-year prison sentence he was handed in an embezzlement case that many have called politically motivated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he doesn't trust Russian promises to scale back military activity and his army is preparing for further fighting in the east.
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