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A top official from Russia's National Guard was sent to pretrial detention on November 4 for at least two months on corruption charges amid a crackdown on military graft.
Russia approached the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression on October 30, amid a troubling landscape marked by a mix of solemn commemorations and unsettling governmental shifts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on September 18 that Kyiv has "fully prepared" its "victory plan" to end the war with Russia and the most important thing now is the determination to implement it.
The Sobesednik publishing house in Russia has suspended for up to three months production at all of its outlets, including its popular newspaper, following a decision by authorities to place the company on the list of "foreign agents."
Noted Russian opposition activist Vitaly Ioffe was killed in the northwestern city of St. Peterburg, a relative told RFE/RL on September 17.
The Russian streaming service Yandex Music has blocked the new album by the rap group Kasta, which is known for its opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The European Union on September 13 removed Violetta Prigozhina, the 85-year-old mother of the late leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, along with several other Russians from its sanctions list.
As Ukraine advances across Russia's Kursk region, fleeing residents report frantic escapes from their homes, angry frustration about how local authorities are handling the wave of displaced people, and a wide gap between state propaganda and reality.
A Moscow court on August 12 sentenced Usman Baratov, a leader of the Uzbek diaspora in Russia, to four years in prison on a charge of inciting hatred online.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, says her late husband must have been among persons released from Russian jails and prisons last week in a major prisoner swap between Moscow and the West.
A Moscow court on August 7 sentenced blogger Andrei Kurshin to 6 1/2 years in prison over two online posts he made condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Officials in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia said on July 31 that rescue workers found the body of another victim from a dam burst earlier this week on the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Belomorkanal), bringing the death toll to four.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is serving an 8 1/2-year prison term for his criticism of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has been unexpectedly transferred to an unknown location from correctional colony No. 3 in the western Smolensk region.
Officials in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia said on July 29 that one person died and several are missing after a temporary dam burst on the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Belomorkanal).
Russia's central bank on July 26 raised its key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18 percent from 16 percent, promising further tightening due to the ongoing inflation, which it estimated for 2024 by up to 7 percent, while previous estimate was 4 percent.
The Russian Interior Ministry on July 18 added journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
The unified press service of courts in St. Petersburg said on July 2 that a court of appeals extended the three-year prison term of documentary director Vsevolod Korolyov known for his anti-war stance to seven years.
A court in St. Petersburg on July 2 labelled one of Russia's best-known TV journalists, Aleksandr Nevzorov, and his wife Lidia as "an extremist group" and ordered their property in the northwestern Leningrad region to be confiscated.
A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on June 26 rejected an appeal filed by lawyers of well-known opposition activist and Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Skobov against his pretrial arrest.
Russia's Supreme Court on June 5 rejected an appeal filed by sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky against the five-year prison term he was handed in February on a charge of making online calls justifying terrorism.
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