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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that his country would emerge victorious following an unprecedented attack from Iran. According to the Israeli military, over 300 drones and missiles were intercepted during the aerial assault by Iran, its first-ever direct attack on Israel.
Kazakh officials say nearly 100,000 people have now been evacuated due to flooding in the Central Asian country. Drone footage captured by RFE/RL's Kazakh Service captured the scale of the devastation to communities and property.
Russian anti-war activist Aleksandr Demidenko, whose death in custody last week was announced to his family by his lawyer on April 8, committed suicide while in pretrial detention, Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service said.
Peter Pellegrini's election win on April 6 gives Slovakia a Russian-friendly president whose views are in line with those of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. But that does not necessarily mean that the country will make a strong stand against NATO and EU policies supporting Ukraine.
Russia is using modified Soviet-era winged bombs, according to Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the eastern Donetsk region. Massive craters in and around Adviyivka show that FAB bombs were heavily deployed by Russia in seizing the town.
Mourners in many countries created temporary memorials to Aleksei Navalny after his death in a Russian prison in February. In the Netherlands, activists are trying to honor the opposition leader in a permanent way: by renaming the street that hosts the Russian Embassy after Navalny.
Supporters of the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny gathered to paint a mural in his honor in Buenos Aires, before a face-off with Argentine police who said they had received complaints. Activists told us they believed the Russian Embassy was behind phone calls to the authorities.
With Russia's Defense Ministry recruiting convicts to fight in Ukraine, prison populations in Russia have dwindled, leading officials to close some facilities. Prison staff are also being diverted to Ukraine, where some become wardens to prisoners of war and others fight on the front lines.
The sounds of generators echo through the streets of Kharkiv after Russian strikes largely cut power to Ukraine's second-largest city. Residents are coping with the hardships of hourly blackouts by powering up their devices and accessing WiFi at local cafes and restaurants.
An unmanned aerial vehicle hit a military drone production facility in Russia's Tatarstan region, some 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The drone attack appears to be Kyiv's deepest in Russia since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
A Moscow court has ordered two months' pretrial detention for a suspected accomplice of the perpetrators of the March 22 terror attack on the Crocus City Hall near the Russian capital, which killed 144 people.
Authorities in Russia’s Far East on April 1 called off a rescue effort for 13 workers trapped deep underground in a collapsed gold mine and declared them dead.
A new joint investigation claims the mysterious Havana Syndrome, which has afflicted U.S. diplomats and intelligence agents in several spots around the globe, may be linked to a Russian military intelligence sabotage unit wielding energy weapons.
Three people have been detained after Russia launched what it described as a “counterterrorism operation” in the southern region of Daghestan, Russian state news agencies reported, quoting the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC).
In the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces took the city of Bucha and killed hundreds of civilians. The troops withdrew on March 31, 2022. Residents of Bucha are still working to identify the victims and pushing for the atrocities to be recognized as war crimes.
"Navalny: The Trial" by the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm brings the late Kremlin critic's battle against Russian President Vladimir Putin to the stage. The play is based on what is widely seen as a politically motivated court case that ended with Navalny in prison, where he died in February.
Russian schools could soon be teaching children "patriotic" songs by pop musicians loyal to President Vladimir Putin who have performed in occupied parts of Ukraine. The idea was proposed by a member of Russia's rubber-stamp parliament and has been backed by the Education Ministry.
An ethnic Uzbek living in Russia told Current Time how he and other migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were detained by Moscow police and interrogated following the attack on an entertainment venue near the Russian capital in which over 140 people were killed.
A 26-year-old Tajik national was detained in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on a charge of justifying terrorism, the Investigative Committee said on March 28.
Raimbek Matraimov has been described as a living symbol of corruption by Kyrgyz media. A former customs official allegedly at the heart of a smuggling ring worth hundreds of millions of dollars, he has now appeared in court in Bishkek after being detained in Azerbaijan the previous day.
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