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Three people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons factory in Sterlitamak, in Russia's Bashkortostan, authorities said.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on August 5 recognized Germany's Konrad Adenauer Foundation as an "undesirable organization."
Russia has claimed that its armed forces seized the eastern Ukrainian village of Novoselivka Persha, as Ukrainian authorities on August 4 ordered the evacuation of civilians from areas of heavy Russian shelling in the Donetsk region.
The Belarusian opposition in exile will continue to recognize Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya as the national leader until a free and fair presidential election is held in Belarus. This was agreed on August 3 at a conference organized by Tsikhanouskaya's office in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
A state of emergency has been declared in the Russian Far East region of Buryatia due to severe flooding.
A 56-year-old man signed up to fight for Ukraine against the Russian invasion despite having previously had both lower legs amputated. Vasyl Shtefko joined the army at the very start of the full-scale invasion in 2022 and served for six months before being discharged on medical grounds.
One of those returned to Russia in a mass prisoner swap with the West was convicted of murder in Berlin. The widow of the victim told us she was surprised and outraged when she heard her husband’s killer had been released.
Ukrainian forces maintain they're holding on in the eastern Ukrainian city of Toretsk despite Russian claims they occupy an adjoining area. Toretsk, situated just north of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, has been increasingly targeted in recent weeks by Russian forces.
About 500 remaining residents live under constant Russian shelling in Chasiv Yar in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Locals lack basic humanitarian aid and water and those killed are buried in backyards.
A man charged with shooting to death former lawmaker Iryna Farion on July 19 has insisted on his innocence. Vyacheslav Zinchenko appeared in custody on July 26 following the Lviv killing, which has prompted street protests. Farion was a controversial figure who advocated a ban on speaking Russian.
The Basmanny district court in Moscow on July 31 sentenced in absentia Ukrainian television journalist Natalia Moseychuk to five years in prison on a charge of inciting hatred.
A Russian court on July 29 sentenced former inmate Vladimir Shcherbakov to nine years in prison for beating to death an 82-year-old woman and robbing her house after returning last year from the war in Ukraine.
NDTV television in India reported on July 29 that another Indian citizen has died while fighting alongside Russia's armed forces in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia would deploy new strike weapons if the United States deployed long-range missiles in Germany.
Uzbekistan is planning to ban marriages between bloodline cousins, blaming the phenomenon for birth defects among newborns. One study claims that nearly 10 percent of the babies born with genetic disorders in Uzbekistan last year were the children of consanguineous marriages.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on July 26 that former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov had been arrested on corruption charges.
A Russian man suspected of being behind a car bombing that left two people wounded in Moscow on July 24 has been extradited from Turkey and has arrived in the Russian capital, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said on July 26.
Russian human rights defender Valentina Chupik says new legislation on migration adopted by Russia's State Duma this week will dramatically restrict the rights of labor migrants.
The mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin on July 24 signed a decree renaming the Square of Europe in Moscow's center into the Square of Eurasia.
How and when will Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 25-year rule come to an end? And who might take his place? These are the questions RFE/RL's Russian investigative unit posed to dozens of international Russia experts, who in all mentioned 34 possible successors by name.
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