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The Olekminsk district court in Russia's Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia sentenced a man to 5 1/2 years in prison for severely beating his wife and cutting off her nose and an ear, the court said on July 30.
A court in Siberia on July 30 extended by one year the 19-year prison term of Ruslan Zinin, who shot a military commissioner at an enlistment center in the city of Ust-Ilimsk in 2022 amid protests against a military mobilization for the war in Ukraine.
Prosecutors asked a court in Siberia on July 26 to sentence Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist and founder of the LIStok newspaper in the city of Gorno-Altaisk, to 9 years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about military.
In the 1920s, Soviet authorities helped plan a city in deepest Siberia where Christians could worship freely (and be watched closely) under the light of a giant electric "sun."
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on July 18 that a court in the Siberian region of Altai Krai sentenced a 20-year-old university student to nine years in prison for sending a parcel with medicines to the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
The Russian Interior Ministry on July 17 added two journalists -- Andrei Zakharov and Dmitry Fomintsev -- to its wanted list on unspecified charges amid an ongoing crackdown on independent media.
The Primorye regional court in Russia's Far East on July 15 rejected the appeal against a lower court's refusal in May to transfer Yakut shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic.
The Tomsk regional court in Siberia said on July 11 that 21-year-old artist Tatyana Laletina had been handed a nine-year prison term two weeks earlier for wiring money to a Ukrainian fund in the wake of Russia's unprovoked invasion of its neighbor.
Japanese police have arrested a 38-year-old Russian citizen on suspicion of participating in activities assisting Russia in the evasion of international sanctions imposed over Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A former fighter of the Wagner mercenary group who was reportedly recruited from prison has been sentenced to seven years in prison for murdering a mother of three after returning home to the Far East region of Primorye from the war in Ukraine.
Russian human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov said authorities at a prison in Siberia placed 62-year-old anti-war activist Natalya Filonova under stricter prison conditions.
Emergency officials in Russia's Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia said on June 27 that wildfires had spread to 600,000 hectares of land in the region, making it the largest territory in Russia hit by wildfires at the moment.
Yulia Alyoshina, the first Russian transgender politician, says her announcement in May about detransitioning was made under pressure.
A Moscow court on June 24 sentenced Konstantin Starchukov to four years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow last year.
Floods caused by heavy rains have cut off access to 10 villages in Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye and are wreaking havoc with transportation in and around several other towns and settlements
A court in Russia's Sakha-Yakutia region in Siberia fined blogger Pyotr Shepelev 10,000 rubles ($117) on June 21 for taking part in an unsanctioned rally in January.
On the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, there is a handful of tiny fishing villages that populated almost equally by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians. People there prefer not to talk about Moscow's war against Ukraine.
Pyotr Shepelev, a blogger in Russia's Siberian Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, faces five administrative charges after being detained on June 18, just hours before a visit to the regional capital, Yakutsk, by President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's Interior Ministry said on June 19 that a 49-year-old man suspected of killing a 12-year-old girl in the Siberian region of Kemerovo has been apprehended.
Police in Russia's Siberian Republic of Sakha-Yakutia detained local blogger Pyotr Shepelev on June 18, just hours before a visit to the regional capital, Yakutsk, by President Vladimir Putin.
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