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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.
A Telegram channel with close ties to the private Russian mercenary group Vagner has published a video of a fighter who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side in Russia's war against Ukraine being killed with a sledgehammer.
Russia will not allow vessels loaded anywhere outside Russia to pass through the Kerch Strait into the Azov Sea.
Olga Smirnova thought that her 25-year-old son was serving a three-year sentence in a Russian prison for theft. But she was shocked to learn that he had been wounded in eastern Ukraine after joining Russia's Vagner mercenary group.
More than 5,000 women are serving in the Ukrainian Army amid Russia's ongoing invasion and occupation of their country. From special uniforms for pregnant soldiers to female toiletry kits, the Zemlyachky Foundation is tailoring military gear for Ukrainian women at war.
U.S. President Joe Biden says he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner now that the U.S. midterm elections are over.
Paratroopers with Ukraine's 79th Air Assault Brigade say they're holding positions around the small city of Maryinka in eastern Ukraine despite daily Russian attacks. Holding Maryinka is seen as critical to Ukrainian hopes of retaking the regional capital, Donetsk.
A Belarusian court has sentenced a businessman to 15 years in prison for administering more than two dozen social media chats on protests that followed a disputed presidential election in August 2020 that saw authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka claim a sixth term in power.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Vagner Group, a shadowy Russian military company, has announced the funding and creation of “militia training centers” in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions.
Russian stand-up comics Ariana Lolayeva and Ilya Ovechkin have gone into exile in Georgia. They say their sets, which include mockery of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other political satire, could land them in jail if they tried to perform in Russia.
A Russian IT developer has been hiding in a forest for a month to avoid mobilization. Not willing to leave Russia, but also not wanting to go to war, he has spent the last month equipping a tent, and says he has maintained a normal work schedule with his employer.
Soldiers with the Ukrainian Army's 93rd Kholodny Yar Mechanized Brigade say they're being attacked by mercenaries from the Vagner Group -- a Kremlin-backed militia.
Residents of the Ukrainian capital coped with disruptions to water and electricity supplies on October 31 following Russian missile strikes on energy facilities.
Soso Glonti, a fitness coach with Russian and Georgian citizenship, left Moscow to head for Kyiv on the first day of the war. There, he burned his Russian passport and joined the Ukrainian forces.
A local official told Russian conscripts, "You are not cannon fodder," in a video published online recently. The men responded by angrily shouting that, actually, that's exactly what they are.
Another four Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Russia amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in Russia since 2017.
Speaking to Current Time in Riga on October 22, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot change the course of war in Ukraine by dropping nuclear bombs.
American fast-food restaurant chain KFC is transferring its Russian business to a local operator, and the Spanish fashion retailer that owns the chain Zara will sell its business in the country, the two multinationals said on October 25.
Amid the ruins of two Ukrainian towns recently recaptured from Russian forces, the local population is cold and traumatized.
Dogs, cats, and even goats have been evacuated from combat zones in Ukraine, including a dog called Crimea that was the sole survivor of a Russian missile attack on a family home in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
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