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People in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan continued their protests against the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin last week. Videos shared on social media show Russian police using force against the protesters.
Many Ukrainians in the territories occupied by Russia are staying at home as they try to dodge soldier-escorted election officials forcing them to participate in a vote on annexation by Moscow.
Emotional scenes were repeated in various parts of Russia as mothers and wives sent off their sons and husbands to fight in Ukraine on September 22, a day after President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization.”
Amid Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian schoolchildren are receiving a new patriotism class that teaches them about the need to "defend the Motherland." But a few teachers have refused to teach the course. And some schools have received up to 50 complaint letters a day from parents.
Russian police detained protesters in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on September 21 as they gathered on a central square to protest against a partial military mobilization announced by President Putin amid recent Russian military losses in Ukraine during a Ukrainian military counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered what he called a partial military mobilization as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the seven-month mark and Kyiv has regained territory in a sweeping counteroffensive. Current Time reporters asked Russian residents how they feel about the announcement.
A Russian court sentenced a couple of self-declared anarchists to 21 months in a colony settlement for criticizing the Federal Security Service (FSB) by unfurling a protest banner at the agency's headquarters in 2018.
Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were scheduled to begin enforcing a ban on access to their countries for most Russians with EU visas on September 19, moving all four beyond the curbs recently agreed by all 27 EU members.
The chairman of the Attorneys' Chamber in Russia's Udmurtia region, Dmitry Talantov, has been accused of committing five crimes and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko visited the newly liberated town of Balaklia in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region. He met a man who said he'd been electrocuted by Russian interrogators and a mother who said her son was shot dead by Russian forces the day before their retreat.
Russia's Supreme Court has banned the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), officially recognizing it as a terrorist organization.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office has denied a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk that Russian teachers in territories liberated from Russian occupying troops had been detained.
Russians on the street say they are deeply skeptical about their army's sudden retreat in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, where they left tanks, armored vehicles and artillery behind, fleeing advancing defenders over the past week.
A local councilor from St. Petersburg who called on Vladimir Putin to resign says he's been overwhelmed by the level of support. Dmitry Palyuga, of St. Petersburg's Smolny municipal council, co-authored a petition calling on the Russian president to step down that was sent to Russia's State Duma.
A court in Moscow has confiscated six apartments in the Russian capital belonging to Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Russian artillery litters the fields in areas of the Kharkiv region that Ukrainian troops have taken back in the last few days. Ukrainian soldiers have posted videos of themselves raising flags on buildings and say they have taken back some 20 towns and villages since September 8.
The Russian car industry is in crisis after the country's invasion of Ukraine prompted new sanctions and an exodus of Western car companies and capital. But in the western Russian city of Tolyatti, home to Lada manufacturer AvtoVaz, Russians still love their Soviet-era cars.
In an attempt to solidify Russian control, Moscow-installed authorities are reportedly threatening and bribing families in the occupied parts of Ukraine to get them to send their children to pro-Russia schools.
The excavated ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple in Kyrgyzstan are set to go on public display. The clay-brick walls of the monastery are more than 1,000 years old and stood along what was then the Silk Road trade route between Asia and Europe.
Ukraine's counteroffensive has shown some early success by liberating 20 towns in the country's embattled east. Footage of Ukrainian soldiers being greeted by emotional locals has flooded social media sites. The counteroffensive may be changing the balance of power in the region.
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