Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A former Siberian police officer who is serving a life sentence for the killings of more than 80 women was handed an additional 10 years in prison on November 22 for the killing of three more women in 1997, 1998, and 2003.
Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, who hijacked a MiG-25 military jet to Japan in September 1976, has died in the United States at the age of 76.
Dozens of Russians gathered in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on November 19 to protest against a local government initiative that would ban protests in most city locations.
The Moscow regional court has rejected an appeal filed by Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk region, against a 22-year prison term he was handed after a jury convicted him of attempted murder, a charge he has steadfastly denied.
A Russian defense official has requested that Yakutia, an ethnic region in northeastern Siberia, send 500 men to the Ukrainian front on a weekly basis to improve its ranking.
A court in Siberia on November 13 ordered Ksenia Fadeyeva, a local lawmaker and the former head of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's regional team, to be sent to pretrial detention.
The mayor’s office of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has rejected an application by relatives of mobilized soldiers fighting in Ukraine to hold a demonstration, citing measures instituted to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Imprisoned Siberian anti-war activist and journalist Maria Ponomarenko is reportedly facing an additional charge of attacking prison guards and may face up to five additional years in prison if convicted, the RusNews website cited Ponomarenko's friend on November 2 as saying.
Imprisoned Russian politicians along with other activists are holding a one-day hunger strike on October 30 to honor political prisoners as residents of towns and cities in several Russian regions marked the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression.
On October 13, 1942, a barge containing prisoners en route to a Soviet labor camp in the remote Arctic city of Norilsk took on water along the Yenisei River. Different accounts suggest it was the result of the inmates desperately trying to escape or that it struck rocks.
A former fighter from the Wagner mercenary group who was recruited from prison last year has been accused of killing a woman after returning home to the Far Eastern region of Primorye Krai from the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.
Police in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, confirmed that a Siberian activist for the Soprotivlenie (Resistance) movement for the independence of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in Russia, Aikhal Ammosov, had been detained at Russia's request and his extradition to Russia is pending.
Imprisoned Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for 25 days for twice being in bed during the daytime, which is considered a violation of penitentiary policy.
A former fighter from the Wagner mercenary group who was recruited from prison last year has been accused of killing two women and burning their house down after returning home to Siberia from the ongoing war against Ukraine.
Russians have commemorated the founder and leader of Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin on the 40th day since his death, a Russian Orthodox tradition to honor those who have passed away.
Anastasia Yemelyanova, a noted anti-war feminist activist from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been found dead in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, her friend Anastasia Polozkova said late on September 24.
The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on September 18 that a Russian national, Maksim Marchenko, who has resided in Hong Kong for years, has been taken to the United States and charged with smuggling U.S.-produced dual-use microelectronics to Russia.
A court in the Russian Far Eastern town of Belogorsk on September 13 sentenced a 71-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who has cancer to four years in prison after finding him guilty of organizing activities of a banned organization.
A court in the Siberian city of Kransoyarsk on September 14 sentenced the former prefect of Moscow’s Northern Administrative Precinct, Oleg Mitvol, to 4 1/2 years in prison in a high-profile embezzlement case.
A court in Russia's Far East has refused to transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across the country for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
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