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A Russian Arctic sea port, Pevek, has a dwindling population and the world's northernmost nuclear power plant, housed on a huge barge. Residents here are nostalgic for the town's heyday, when the port was busy with mineral shipments.
A social-media post by a group in the city of Kansk, in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, shows an apparent sign-up order for a 12-year-old local boy based on an order by the Kansk military commissariat.
Ukraine's Finance Ministry says demand for private bomb shelters has risen twentyfold since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the country in February. A host of companies are offering shelters that they say can protect occupants from shelling and shock waves.
A Vilnius court on December 9 cancelled the residence permit of Yelena Kaminskas, aka Shebunova, a Russian citizen who is reportedly the mother of two extramarital children from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Authorities said that the flames at the Mega shopping center in Khimki spread over an area of about 18,000 square meters.
A Norwegian court has acquitted Andrei Yakunin, the son of one of President Vladimir Putin's longtime confidants, of charges he violated a law that bars Russian citizens from flying drones in Norway.
Children from occupied areas of Ukraine were taken to a camp in Chechnya for "military-patriotic" training in November, according to Russian officials. The children were described as "socially troubled" and designated for "reeducation."
Russian prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to sentence opposition politician and Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin to nine years in prison for purportedly spreading false information about the Russian military amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
About 1,700 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, officials said on December 4.
The Latvia-based independent Russian television channel Dozhd (Rain) has been fined 10,000 euros ($10,468) for using a map of Russia with Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimea on it and calling Russian armed forces invading Ukraine "our army."
After Ukrainian troops retook large parts of the Kherson region from Russian forces, officials began the work of investigating military and civilian deaths and removing mines and booby traps from the area.
How do you keep a cafe running when Russian rocket attacks keep cutting your power supply?
A support center for the LGBT community in the capital of the southern Russian Republic of Tatarstan has announced its suspension of activities to avoid falling afoul of a sweeping new Russian law banning "propaganda" of nontraditional sexual relations or desires to "change sex."
Moscow and Kyiv exchanged some 50 prisoners of war from each side on November 24, according to presidential and defense officials, one day after dozens were returned in another swap.
Families of Russian conscripts have taken to social media to complain about the poor conditions facing their loved ones. They say that the soldiers have not received proper training, lack basic military gear, and have to find their own food and water.
Romania and Ukraine have criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after he posted photographs on Facebook showing himself wearing a scarf with a map of so-called Greater Hungary, which includes territories of present-day Austria, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, and Croatia.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says he is suing the prison where he is incarcerated for failing to give him winter boots.
A theater in the southern Russian city of Novosibirsk has canceled a children's play just days after local Culture Ministry authorities said they would investigate whether the performance violated anti-LGBT legislation.
We were late providing Ukraine with modern air defense systems, said Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in an interview with Current Time, adding that -- as an overspill of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine -- the deadly missile explosion in Poland on November 15 was a wake-up call.
The deputy chairman of the independent Labor Union of Belarus has been handed a 30-month prison term for telling factory workers to consider forming a strike committee as a crackdown on dissent continues in the country.
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