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A military court has sentenced a resident of the western Russian region of Chelyabinsk to 13 years in a maximum-security prison and fined him 200,000 rubles ($2,245) on a charge of high treason for calling on those mobilized to the military to surrender to Ukrainian forces.
A large fire broke out early on May 30 in the eastern part of Moscow in a production building and a warehouse, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said.
The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office said on May 28 that the former deputy chief of the Almaty city police department, Berik Abilbekov, was detained as part of a case of torture during unprecedented antigovernment protests in January 2022 that turned deadly after security forces opened fire.
European Union foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on 19 Russian officials and Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) over their involvement in the persecution of opposition politicians and activists.
Russian media reports said U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, who was arrested in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in early May on suspicion of theft, has been additionally charged with threatening to kill his partner, a Russian woman.
Amid a new mobilization law in Ukraine, men aged 18-60 are seeking increasingly inventive methods to flee the country and escape the war -- border guards even caught one man who tried to dress as a woman and use his sister's passport.
Czech National Security Adviser Tomas Pojar says that the country's ammo initiative will start sending urgently needed artillery shells to Ukraine no later than June. The Czech-led drive has reportedly raised enough funds to procure hundreds of thousands of shells from non-EU markets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 23 signed a decree allowing to compensate damages caused by confiscation of assets of Russian tycoons and the Central Bank in the United States by the assets, valuable papers and property belonging to the United States or the U.S. citizens in Russia.
Russia has withdrawn without explanation a Defense Ministry draft that proposed revising Moscow's maritime border in the eastern Baltic Sea and expanding its territorial waters that raised the ire of littoral NATO members Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, and Estonia.
U.S. tourist Bryan Bingham was detained by Georgian security forces at a demonstration in Tbilisi against the so-called foreign agent law. He says he was beaten by police. At the protests, a Russian activist is now trying to help Georgians in their battle against the controversial legislation.
A Moscow court on May 20 fined Stanislav Netyosov 30,000 rubles ($330) on a charge of discrediting the Russian military after dying his hair blue and yellow, which police considered support for Ukraine due to its national flag of the same colors.
A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's southern Black Sea port city of Odesa has killed one person and wounded eight others, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.
Yulia Alyoshina, the first Russian transgender politician, announced on May 16 that she had decided to change gender again and return to using her former name, Roman.
Thousands of Georgians rallied near the parliament building in Tbilisi on the evening of May 14, hours after lawmakers gave final approval to a controversial bill affecting groups receiving foreign funding. There were reports of arrests and some protesters being beaten by police earlier in the day.
Ukrainian media reports say the commander responsible for the defense of the northeastern Kharkiv front, General Yuriy Halushkin, has been replaced by General Mykhaylo Drapatiy.
Ukraine's military says Russian forces have stepped up the large-scale assault on the border region of Kharkiv and the situation in the area of the town of Vovchansk has become very difficult, prompting the evacuation of the inhabitants of the small town.
The Memorial human rights group says the father of the group's self-exiled member, Konstantin Konoplyanko, was detained in Moscow on May 12 on unspecified charges.
The 50-year-old partner of Russian oligarch and sanctioned former Rosneft CEO Eduard Khudainatov is reportedly the mystery buyer of four chalets in the Austrian Alpine resort of Kitzbuehel worth a combined 26 million euros ($28 million).
Two villagers in the Donetsk region escaped the Russian occupation of their village by walking across the front line in April. Ivan Vivsyanyk, 88, had no interest in the Russian passport he was told to accept, and Lidia Stepanivna, 98, felt the same. They walked 10-kilometers to freedom.
The Pentagon has said that the U.S. Army serviceman who is one of two Americans arrested by Russia in separate cases disclosed on May 7 had violated army rules by traveling to the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, and he had gone there via China.
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