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Russian opposition candidate Boris Nadezhdin, running for President Vladimir Putin's job in the March elections, says the war on Ukraine has been a disaster. Nadezhdin has collected the legally required 100,000 signatures for his nomination as a candidate, he says.
The government of NATO member Lithuania has drafted legislation to ban its military personnel from taking non-work-related trips to Russia, Belarus, and China.
Ukraine and Russia have contradicted each other over whether there had been proper notification to secure the airspace around an area where a military transport plane Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed, killing them and nine others on board.
Russia has been facing a deficit of eggs since last fall and has reached out to Kazakhstan to increase its exports. However, the price of eggs has also risen in the Central Asian country.
Alfinur Rakhmatullina, a 60-year-old activist, was detained in Salavat, a city in Russia's Bashkortostan region, on charges of participating in mass riots, her daughter, Laysan Ravilova said on January 24.
Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate said on January 24 that it does not have "reliable and comprehensive information" on who was on board a military plane that crashed in the Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, killing everyone on board.
The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has opened kindergartens in the subway to help protect young pupils from Russian air strikes. Groups of children spend two hours every weekend at the makeshift facilities, where they learn the basics of math, writing, and drawing.
A court in Russia's Bashkortostan region has sent four activists to pretrial detention for at least two months over their participation in rallies last week to support the former leader of the banned Bashqort movement, who was sentenced to four years in prison.
The Russian government is to introduce mandatory consular registration for Russian citizens living abroad and will also create a “digital profile” for foreigners coming to the country.
At least 42,284 Russian military personnel have been killed since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, according to research by journalists from Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service who have established the deceased soldiers' identities.
Hundreds of people rallied on January 19 in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region, in support of Fail Alsynov, an activist who was sentenced to four years in prison. Riot police detained several people at the latest rally in Alsynov's defense.
Bashkir singer Altynay Valitov, a supporter of activist Fail Alsynov who was sentenced to four years on January 17 for "inciting ethnic hatred," has gone incommunicado after his domicile in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan republic, was raided by security forces.
Hundreds of people gathered on the central square in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan region on January 19 to support activist Fail Alsynov after his sentencing two days earlier to four years in prison on a charge of "inciting ethnic hatred" sparked clashes with police.
A Ukrainian drone on January 19 attacked an oil depot in Klintsy, in Russia's Bryansk region, sparking a fire at oil storage tanks before being shot down by Russian air defenses, regional governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said on Telegram.
Police searched the Moscow offices of Russian online clothing retailer Wildberries, confiscating documents related to the company's large warehouse near St. Petersburg that was burned to the ground in a fire last weekend, the SHOT Telegram channel linked to the government said on January 18.
Ruslan Zinin, who shot a military commissioner at an enlistment center in Siberia in 2022 amid protests against a mobilization to the war in Ukraine, told a court that he was tortured by police before investigators questioned him.
Local media reported security forces used tear gas and stun grenades on demonstrators, after a court in Russia's Bashkortostan region handed down a four-year prison sentence to an activist.
Turkey says people from Turkmenistan and Russia are the two largest groups of foreigners living in the country as they seek better living conditions.
Russian atrocities in Ukraine have created an "emotionally charged" atmosphere in Latvia, according to its president, Edgars Rinkevics. Speaking to Current Time in Riga on January 9, he described divisions between those who had suffered repression in the Soviet era and some Russian-speaking Latvians
Thousands of people rallied to support an activist in Bashkortostan, an autonomous Russian republic 1,100 kilometers east of Moscow. The activist, Fail Alsynov, is accused of inciting ethnic hatred over plans to bring migrants for a new gold-mining project in the region.
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