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Four people died in a helicopter crash in the Amur region in Russia's Far East, authorities reported on June 21.
The Kyiv shooting of an opposition activist and journalist from Kazakhstan, Aidos Sadyqov, was no random street crime, according to his wife. Natalya Sadyqova was in the car with her husband when a shooter fired on him on June 18.
Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, added self-exiled television journalist Tatyana Lazareva to its list of "terrorists and extremists" on June 19.
A court in the Russian Far East has convicted and sentenced a U.S. Army sergeant who reportedly broke military rules to travel to Russia with his Russian girlfriend in May to three years and nine months in prison for allegedly attacking and threatening her.
An opposition journalist and activist from Kazakhstan, Aidos Sadyqov, was shot in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on June 18 by an unknown assailant.
Outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin, serving 8 1/2 years in prison for openly condemning Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has been transferred to a punitive cell unit (PKT) in a prison in the western Smolensk region, his Telegram channel said.
A military court in Moscow on June 18 sentenced Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko in absentia to 10 years in prison.
Ukraine's main security and counterintelligence agency was behind an overnight drone attack that ignited a major fire at an oil depot in the southern Russian city of Azov, a reliable source in the Ukrainian security forces told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on June 18.
A Moscow court on June 17 issued arrest warrants for two journalists from the independent iStories investigative website -- Yekaterina Fomina and chief editor Roman Anin -- on a charge of "distributing false information about the Russian military."
Ukraine is set to continue to import record amounts of power to make up for a shortfall caused by Russia's targeting of energy infrastructure, which has decimated output.
Ukraine's National Olympic Committee has called on the International Olympic Committee to ban the participation of three female wrestlers from Russia and one from Belarus in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris for their support of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said authorities in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, canceled a performance by Svetlana Zakharova, the pro-Kremlin prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, at the requests of Ukraine's embassy and Slovenia’s Ukrainian community.
A Moscow court on June 11 sentenced in absentia noted Russian lawyer and outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Novikov to 8 1/5 years in prison on charge of spreading false information about Russia's military.
A Moscow court on June 11 sentenced a 59-year-old resident to 10 days in jail for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Ukrainian symbols and the slogan "Glory to Ukraine."
The Supreme Court of Russia on June 7 banned what it called the Anti-Russia Separatist Movement, a group that does not appear to exist. The move was made at the Justice Ministry's request.
A French man has been detained in Moscow on suspicion of collecting information related to the activities of Russia's armed forces, the Russian Investigative Committee said on June 6.
A drone attack on the oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, in Russia's Rostov region earlu on June 6 has caused a fire, regional governor Vasily Golubev said.
As Belarus approaches the fourth anniversary of the massive August 2020 protests against election fraud, the termination of the parental rights of imprisoned dissenters has become a tool Minsk uses to quash further dissent, Belarusian activists say.
They were once the personal bodyguards of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but now they hold senior jobs such as governors and government ministers. One of them even claims to have saved Putin from a bear.
A Moscow court on June 5 fined an Iranian citizen for wearing a sweatshirt with national symbols of Ukraine, as well as a slogan calling for support of Ukraine in its efforts to repel invading Russian troops.
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