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Ukraine says it has sunk a Russian patrol ship, the Sergei Kotov, in the Black Sea. On March 5, Ukrainian military intelligence told RFE/RL that Kyiv's forces have been hunting the ship for some time. The fate of its crew was not immediately clear.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison under mysterious circumstances, was laid to rest in Borisovskoye cemetery on March 1, near his childhood home in Moscow. His mother bid farewell to her son just before his casket was closed.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow ahead of the funeral service for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died in prison under mysterious circumstances.
At least 11 people have been killed and more than 20 others are missing after a landslide hit the western Georgian region of Racha on August 3.
More than 1,000 Iranian oil workers have joined in nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained over an alleged Islamic dress code violation and died in custody.
An early morning blast and ensuing fire hit a section of the dual road-and-rail Crimea Bridge over the Kerch Strait and a span of the road bridge collapsed into the sea on October 8.
Demonstrations across Iran appear be to waning as security forces continued their deadly crackdown on protests that have shaken the country for two weeks.
People in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan continued their protests against the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin last week. Videos shared on social media show Russian police using force against the protesters.
Iran has partially restricted access to the Internet and social media platforms as protests spread to at least 50 cities following the death of a 22-year old woman who was detained by the country's morality police.
Protesters chased police officers in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on September 20 as nationwide protests continued over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the country's morality police.
At least three people have been killed in Iran during protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was taken into custody by the country's hijab police.
At least one person was reported killed in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on August 14 after a strong blast hit a fireworks storage area. The pyrotechnics were kept at the city's popular Surmalu market. Authorities expect that people could be trapped under the rubble.
With the cost of living skyrocketing, struggling Iranian pensioners and retired government employees held protests in more than 16 cities across Iran on June 6-7.
One person died as police broke up a demonstration in Khorugh, the capital of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region, on the border with Afghanistan on May 16.
Instead of running for cover, a Ukrainian paramedic comforted a wounded civilian as shells rained down on the eastern city of Kharkiv. At least five people were killed and a dozen were wounded on April 17 when apartment blocks were bombarded by Russian forces.
Ukraine's military announced that it destroyed a Russian naval transport ship in the port of Berdyansk on March 24. It could not be immediately verified if the explosions resulted from a Ukrainian attack or another cause.
Drone video revealed widespread devastation in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on March 22.
Russian troops occupying the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson fired live rounds and stun grenades at peaceful protesters. Amateur video appearing on social media on March 21 showed at least one person being wounded in the city's Liberty Square.
Amateur videos of Russian tanks and other armored vehicles being towed across fields and villages by Ukrainian tractors regularly go viral on social media. The military vehicles are usually abandoned, broken down, or out of fuel.
The mothers of Russian soldiers involved in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine angrily confronted the governor of Siberia's Kemerovo region, asking if their sons were "lied to" and being used as "cannon fodder."
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