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A freight train derailed in Russia’s Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine, due to what the rail operator said was an “interference in operations.”
Foreign nationals serving terms in Russian prisons have been asked to write requests to serve the remainder of their terms in their homeland following two recent hostage-taking crises in Russian penitentiaries, IStories said on September 10.
The Ukrainian authorities have introduced a curfew and shut down rail connections in the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Russian forces are now just kilometers away. An estimated 26,000 residents remain.
Incumbents and other loyalists of President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party were expected to coast to victory in most of the 21 regional governorships and other local voting that wrapped up in Russian elections that rights groups and independent experts agree lack genuine competition.
The Russian Justice Ministry on September 6 added Zalina Marshenkulova, a feminist activist in exile, to its list of "foreign agents."
A court in the Polish capital has issued arrests warrants for three Belarusian men over their roles in the forced landing in Minsk of a commercial flight carrying then-dissident blogger Raman Pratasevich in 2021.
Latvia’s parliament is debating a draft law that allows authorities to confiscate vehicles with Belarussian license plates in the Latvian territory.
A Moscow court on September 5 sent three officers of a notorious immigration center in Sakharovo near Moscow to pretrial detention for at least two months on corruption charges.
Grieving relatives gathered outside a morgue in the Ukrainian city of Poltava on September 4 to try to identify the victims of a Russian air strike the previous day. More than 50 people were reported killed and over 270 wounded in the attack on a military training facility.
Russian contract soldier Kamil Kasimov, who fled Russia for Kazakhstan last year to avoid being sent to the war in Ukraine, has been sentenced to six years in prison in Russia, the 72.ru website quoted his friends as saying on September 3.
Two Russian missiles struck a military training facility in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava on September 3, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200. Military observers questioned why a large number of people were gathered at the site, making them vulnerable to a single attack.
There is no war fatigue in Russia yet because Putin and the government-controlled media have been convincing society that "there is no war," exiled Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky says, adding that once Putin "creates the feeling that there is a war, the clock will start ticking" for him.
The European Union on September 3 criticized Mongolia for failing to enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the country.
Russian opposition political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was released from a Russian prison last month in a major prisoner swap between Russia and the West, says Mongolian authorities "must arrest" President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the East Asian country.
Mongolia is obliged to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived on a state visit to the East Asian nation on September 2, according to exiled Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Belarusian Alyaksandr Avdevich is the founder of the Inclusive Barista, a Warsaw cafe that provides opportunities for Belarusian migrants with disabilities. The site is part of a larger social project that Avdevich started following an injury that left him without the use of his legs.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on August 29 that it has launched a probe on fraud charges against former Defense Minister Pavel Popov, part of an ongoing campaign against top military officials.
At least nine people were killed by fresh Russian attacks on two Ukrainian regions on August 28 as Kyiv's drones struck three Russian regions, setting an oil depot on fire in Russia's Rostov region.
Former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov has called on the Red Cross to intervene to alleviate the situation of Aleksei Gorinov, who is serving a 7-year sentence that rights groups and his supporters say it is politically motivated.
Since the dismantling of Belarusian civil society after the crackdown on pro-democracy protests that broke out in 2020, orphans and other disadvantaged children have been increasingly subjected to a highly ideologized “military-patriotic” education run in part by the Defense and Interior ministries.
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