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Russian missiles struck a hospital in the Velikiy Burluk settlement of Ukraine's eastern region of Kharkiv, causing damage but no casualties, regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov reported early on February 1.
A Russian singer arrived in Israel while his bandmates remained in detention in Thailand on January 31, amid efforts by Moscow to have the musicians deported to Russia. The band, Bi-2, is known for opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine held another prisoner swap on January 31 that Kyiv said involved 207 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs). Russia said 195 of its troops were taken back in the process in exchanged for the same number of Ukrainian soldiers.
Seven members of the Bi-2 rock group, who openly condemned Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, are being held in Thailand and may be extradited to Russia, where they fear they will face persecution.
The SK SOS rights group that assists the LGBT community in Russia said on January 30 that Salman Mukayev from Russia's Chechnya region, who was tortured by Chechen police in 2020 during mass anti-LGBT raids, was granted asylum in Armenia.
The Kazakh government has purchased more than 1.5 million measles vaccines amid a surge of cases. The country has the third-highest caseload in the world, behind Yemen and India, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Russia's Interior Ministry has put prominent writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin, on a wanted list for alleged criminal activity, although specific charges were not listed.
A Moscow court on January 26 issued an arrest warrant on a charge of distributing "fake" information about Russia's military for self-exiled Russian lawyer Mark Feigin, who has defended noted Russian and Ukrainian activists.
A district court in the Croatian city of Split has ruled in favor of transferring the Royal Romance yacht that belonged to pro-Moscow Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk to the Ukrainian state, the head of Ukraine's Asset Recovery and Management Agency, Olena Duma, reported on Telegram.
A Moscow court on January 26 rejected the latest appeal by U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich over his pretrial detention on an espionage charge that he, his employer The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and the U.S. government reject.
Russia last year imported $1.7 billion worth of foreign-made microchips despite international sanctions meant to prevent Moscow from obtaining advanced technology that can be used for military purposes in its war in Ukraine, Bloomberg said, citing classified Russian customs service data.
A day after a Russian military jet went down in the country's Belgorod region, many questions remain. Russia claims Ukraine downed the plane, which Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Ukraine cast doubt on the presence of prisoners and is seeking an international investigation.
Russian opposition candidate Boris Nadezhdin, running for President Vladimir Putin's job in the March elections, says the war on Ukraine has been a disaster. Nadezhdin has collected the legally required 100,000 signatures for his nomination as a candidate, he says.
The government of NATO member Lithuania has drafted legislation to ban its military personnel from taking non-work-related trips to Russia, Belarus, and China.
Ukraine and Russia have contradicted each other over whether there had been proper notification to secure the airspace around an area where a military transport plane Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed, killing them and nine others on board.
Russia has been facing a deficit of eggs since last fall and has reached out to Kazakhstan to increase its exports. However, the price of eggs has also risen in the Central Asian country.
Alfinur Rakhmatullina, a 60-year-old activist, was detained in Salavat, a city in Russia's Bashkortostan region, on charges of participating in mass riots, her daughter, Laysan Ravilova said on January 24.
Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate said on January 24 that it does not have "reliable and comprehensive information" on who was on board a military plane that crashed in the Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, killing everyone on board.
The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has opened kindergartens in the subway to help protect young pupils from Russian air strikes. Groups of children spend two hours every weekend at the makeshift facilities, where they learn the basics of math, writing, and drawing.
A court in Russia's Bashkortostan region has sent four activists to pretrial detention for at least two months over their participation in rallies last week to support the former leader of the banned Bashqort movement, who was sentenced to four years in prison.
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