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Moscow police have detained two women who had come to pay their respects at the grave of late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny in Moscow's Borisov Cemetery, OVD-Info reported, citing a witness to the arrest.
A year after Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam burst, causing massive flooding, it is still causing new problems -- with many buildings crumbling and in danger of collapse due to subsidence and lack of heating.
Russian filmmaker Andrei Loshak’s documentary sequel The Age Of Disagreement: 2024 tells how the lives of the activists who had dreamed in 2018, together with opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, of a “beautiful Russia of the future” changed dramatically both before and after his mysterious death.
A Moscow court on June 4 issued an arrest warrant for well-known Belarusian athlete Paval Shurmey, who is currently part of a group of Belarusians fighting alongside Ukrainian troops against Russia.
About 20 wives and mothers of mobilized Russian troops engaged in a rare protest in front of the Defense Ministry building in Moscow on June 3, demanding the return of their family members from the battlefield in Ukraine.
Residents of Ukraine's northeastern region of Sumy are worried about a new Russian offensive after Moscow opened a new front in the neighboring Kharkiv region. Russian forces approached the city of Sumy after it launched its full-scale invasion in 2022 but withdrew after incurring losses.
Chilling accounts have emerged of school life for children in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, where Ukrainian textbooks were burned and replaced with new ones partly written by an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A military court has sentenced a resident of the western Russian region of Chelyabinsk to 13 years in a maximum-security prison and fined him 200,000 rubles ($2,245) on a charge of high treason for calling on those mobilized to the military to surrender to Ukrainian forces.
A large fire broke out early on May 30 in the eastern part of Moscow in a production building and a warehouse, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said.
The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office said on May 28 that the former deputy chief of the Almaty city police department, Berik Abilbekov, was detained as part of a case of torture during unprecedented antigovernment protests in January 2022 that turned deadly after security forces opened fire.
European Union foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on 19 Russian officials and Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) over their involvement in the persecution of opposition politicians and activists.
Russian media reports said U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, who was arrested in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in early May on suspicion of theft, has been additionally charged with threatening to kill his partner, a Russian woman.
Amid a new mobilization law in Ukraine, men aged 18-60 are seeking increasingly inventive methods to flee the country and escape the war -- border guards even caught one man who tried to dress as a woman and use his sister's passport.
Czech National Security Adviser Tomas Pojar says that the country's ammo initiative will start sending urgently needed artillery shells to Ukraine no later than June. The Czech-led drive has reportedly raised enough funds to procure hundreds of thousands of shells from non-EU markets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 23 signed a decree allowing to compensate damages caused by confiscation of assets of Russian tycoons and the Central Bank in the United States by the assets, valuable papers and property belonging to the United States or the U.S. citizens in Russia.
Russia has withdrawn without explanation a Defense Ministry draft that proposed revising Moscow's maritime border in the eastern Baltic Sea and expanding its territorial waters that raised the ire of littoral NATO members Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, and Estonia.
U.S. tourist Bryan Bingham was detained by Georgian security forces at a demonstration in Tbilisi against the so-called foreign agent law. He says he was beaten by police. At the protests, a Russian activist is now trying to help Georgians in their battle against the controversial legislation.
A Moscow court on May 20 fined Stanislav Netyosov 30,000 rubles ($330) on a charge of discrediting the Russian military after dying his hair blue and yellow, which police considered support for Ukraine due to its national flag of the same colors.
A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's southern Black Sea port city of Odesa has killed one person and wounded eight others, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.
Yulia Alyoshina, the first Russian transgender politician, announced on May 16 that she had decided to change gender again and return to using her former name, Roman.
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