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The Russian Interior Ministry has added former member of parliament Magomed Gadzhiyev to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
A Moscow court issued arrest warrants for the self-exiled lawyers of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny -- Olga Mikhailova and Aleksandr Fedulov -- on extremism charges over their association with Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
The Operativnyye Svodki (Operative Data) Telegram channel close to Russian law enforcement structures said on February 14 that police detained a former member of the Yabloko opposition party, Mikhail Sharygin, on extremism charges in the city of Nizhny Novgorod a day earlier.
Self-exiled Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenka told the Novaya gazeta Europe website on February 13 that his father had been officially informed that a criminal case was launched against him on unspecified charges.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office said on February 13 that the Anti-Corruption High Court has nationalized assets in Ukraine belonging to Russian oligarch and former lawmaker Ivan Savvidi.
Moscow has placed Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Russia's wanted list, the first time a foreign leader has been put on the Interior Ministry's list, for "destroying monuments to Soviet soldiers" as relations between the Kremlin and the West continue to show signs of deteriorating.
Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, has come under daily attack by Russian forces for the past two months. The fighting is taking a toll on animals as well as people. Families describe their pets cowering in fear from the shelling, while local shelters try to treat injured dogs and find their owners.
A Moscow court on February 12 issued an arrest warrant for the spokesman for Facebook's parent company, Meta, accusing him of promoting terrorism.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on February 12 that it added 18 British citizens, including top defense officials and leading Russia experts, to its sanctions list for "demonizing" Russia and supporting "the regime" of Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ukraine.
A 71-year-old Ukrainian citizen who was accused by Russian authorities of espionage and participation in a terrorist organization has died in pretrial detention in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the Memorial human rights monitor said on February 11.
The wife of imprisoned Uzbek-born Russian rights defender Bakhrom Khamroyev was quoted by Mediazona as saying her husband was severely beaten in a detention center in the city of Vladimir last month after he demanded his rights be respected.
Forbes reported on February 8 that billionaire Vasily Anisimov had renounced his Russian citizenship, becoming the seventh tycoon to do so since Moscow launched its ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is expected to win a fifth consecutive term in the country's elections on February 7. International watchdogs have described the vote as neither free nor fair amid reports of voting irregularities and an election boycott by major opposition parties.
Anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin's registration as a candidate for Russia's presidential election is under question by authorities. In an interview with Current Time, he discussed his presidential election bid and his fight to get on the ballot for the March 15-17 vote.
The Russian Justice Ministry on February 6 declared as "undesirable" Japan's Northern Territories Issue Association, which seeks the return to Japan of four islands incorporated to Russia by the then-Soviet Union after World War II.
Police in Moscow have detained Aleksei Fedyarov, the top lawyer at the human rights group Russia Behind Bars, on suspicion of facilitating a bribe.
Persecuted and prosecuted in their home country, some members of Russia's LGBT community have been driven abroad -- and hundreds have moved to Argentina, where their civil rights are legally recognized. But some worry that Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, may roll back legal protections.
Russia's emergencies service says one of its helicopters has crashed into Lake Onega, in the northwestern region of Karelia, killing all three crew on board.
A Ukrainian man has created a mobile shelter that he says can be assembled in 2-3 hours and placed directly in the home. Serhiy Zakharin was so confident in the product that he tested it by dropping a 1-ton weight on the shelter while he was in it.
Russia's Prosecutor General has declared Russian Election Monitor (REM) an "undesirable" organization, the State Duma commission to investigate foreign interference in Russian politics reported on February 1.
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