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Thousands of Georgians rallied near the parliament building in Tbilisi on the evening of May 14, hours after lawmakers gave final approval to a controversial bill affecting groups receiving foreign funding. There were reports of arrests and some protesters being beaten by police earlier in the day.
Ukrainian media reports say the commander responsible for the defense of the northeastern Kharkiv front, General Yuriy Halushkin, has been replaced by General Mykhaylo Drapatiy.
Ukraine's military says Russian forces have stepped up the large-scale assault on the border region of Kharkiv and the situation in the area of the town of Vovchansk has become very difficult, prompting the evacuation of the inhabitants of the small town.
The Memorial human rights group says the father of the group's self-exiled member, Konstantin Konoplyanko, was detained in Moscow on May 12 on unspecified charges.
The 50-year-old partner of Russian oligarch and sanctioned former Rosneft CEO Eduard Khudainatov is reportedly the mystery buyer of four chalets in the Austrian Alpine resort of Kitzbuehel worth a combined 26 million euros ($28 million).
Two villagers in the Donetsk region escaped the Russian occupation of their village by walking across the front line in April. Ivan Vivsyanyk, 88, had no interest in the Russian passport he was told to accept, and Lidia Stepanivna, 98, felt the same. They walked 10-kilometers to freedom.
The Pentagon has said that the U.S. Army serviceman who is one of two Americans arrested by Russia in separate cases disclosed on May 7 had violated army rules by traveling to the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, and he had gone there via China.
Russian officials said two U.S. nationals were arrested in separate cases, including a serving army member, raising renewed questions over whether Moscow is targeting Americans to detain and later use as bargaining chips in prisoner swaps.
An ex-minister is on trial for his wife's murder in Kazakhstan. The case has put domestic violence in the spotlight in the country, where UN figures suggest at least 400 women die every year from spousal violence. (WARNING: This video contains scenes of domestic violence.)
A court in the Siberian city of Omsk has sentenced psychologist Olga Belova to six years in prison in absentia on a charge of distributing "deliberately false" information about Russia's armed forces motivated by political hatred.
The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, on May 6 approved in the second and third readings a bill that would ban individuals added to the controversial "foreign agents'" list from taking part in federal, regional, and local elections.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says a Russian correctional colony employee in Moscow-occupied Berdyansk who had been implicated in the alleged torture of Ukrainians has been "eliminated."
Russia's Interior Ministry has opened a "criminal case" against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and ex-President Petro Poroshenko and placed themm on its "wanted list," Russian state media reported.
A military court in Moscow on May 3 extended the pretrial detention until at least October 22 for theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk in a high-profile terrorism case that rights defenders call trumped-up.
The U.S. Department of Justice said on May 1 that a Ukrainian national was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison for over 2,500 ransomware attacks where he demanded more than $700 million in ransom payments.
A Ukrainian Army spokesman told RFE/RL on April 30 that Russia used a cluster bomb in a deadly attack on a law school dubbed "Harry Potter's Castle" in Odesa. Among the wounded was a pregnant woman, a small child, and a former pro-Russian politician once awarded a state honor by Vladimir Putin.
Outgunned Ukrainian troops are fighting to hold off Russian assaults as Moscow looks to capture more territory in the Donbas region. Speaking with RFE/RL, the head of Ukraine's Council of Reservists, Ivan Tymochko, said Russia is trying to capture the entire Donetsk region.
Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a Chechen special forces training school in Gudermes.
Moscow journalist Konstantin Gabov has been arrested on charges of participating in the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel, the Basmanny District Court press service reported on April 27.
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes worth $10 billion, according to Russian media. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Analysts weigh in on why it could weaken his boss, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
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