The Russian minister overseeing digital communications says the government has no plans to block the video sharing platform YouTube despite threats to do so over parent company Alphabet Inc's failure to delete content Moscow has deemed illegal.
Moscow says it is expelling two Finnish diplomats in retaliation for Helsinki's decision to expel a similar number of Russian diplomats in April.
A Moscow court has delayed a hearing into jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's appeal against his latest sentence.
Sweden has signed a formal request to join NATO, a day after Stockholm announced it would seek membership in the 30-member western military alliance amid security concerns sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The United Nations' children's agency says war in Ukraine, one of the world's largest grain suppliers, is threatening to plunge the world into a "spiraling" food crisis, exacerbating the problem of severe hunger among a growing number of children.
RFE/RL's Ukraine Live Briefing gives you all of the latest on Russia's unprovoked invasion of its neighbor, how Kyiv is fighting back, the plight of civilians, and Western reaction. The Live Briefing presents the latest developments and analysis, updated throughout the day.
The Ukrainian government says it is continuing efforts to complete the evacuation of its fighters from the Azovstal steel plant, the last stronghold in the southern city of Mariupol, after around 260 soldiers, some of them wounded, were able to get out of the sprawling complex.
Four women in St. Petersburg face the threat of up to 10 years in prison for allegedly "discrediting the armed forces" regarding protests against the war in Ukraine. Their cases are among about four dozen such prosecutions across Russia marking a new stage of the Kremlin's war against dissent.
Using Javelins and other anti-tank weapons, Ukrainian forces repelled an advance by Russian troops on the outskirts of Horlivka in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. Embedded with Ukrainian forces on May 13, RFE/RL's Roman Pahulych reported at least two Russian armored vehicles were destroyed.
Moscow municipal lawmaker Lyusya Shtein, who is also a member of Pussy Riot protest group, has been added to the Russian Interior Ministry’s wanted list.
Global fast food giant McDonald's and French car maker Renault have become the latest major corporations to announcement their exit from Russia, joining dozens of others in an exodus over Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Sweden has joined Finland in deciding to apply to join the NATO military alliance in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will "certainly" react to the alliance's expected enlargement into the two Nordic countries.
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