An alleged Russian intelligence officer accused by the United States of smuggling U.S.-origin electronics and ammunition to Russia to help its war against Ukraine was extradited from Estonia, federal prosecutors said on July 14.
One person was killed in an accident at a uranium enrichment plant in Russia's Urals region on July 14, the RIA Novosti news agency said, but the factory said radiation levels at the site and surrounding area were normal.
The UN Human Rights Council has approved a contentious resolution on religious hatred in the wake of the burning of a Koran in Sweden.
A number of houses in the small village of Krivtsovo near Moscow were on fire over an area of 3,200 square meters early on July 12, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The United States is “deeply disappointed” by Russia’s “inhumane veto” against the UN renewal of Turkish delivered aid to Syria, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on July 11.
Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy will go to Turkey on July 11 for talks with his Turkish counterpart about extending the deal that allows Ukraine to export grain from its Black Sea ports, the minister said on Facebook.
Russia's most senior general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, was shown ordering subordinates to destroy Ukrainian missile sites in a video released on July 10, in what would be his first appearance in public since a failed June 24 Wagner mercenary mutiny.
Poland has detained another suspected member of a Russian spy network, bringing the total number of people detained as part of an investigation to 16, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on August 4.
Polls have closed in the July 9 presidential election in Uzbekistan. Despite partial reforms, political competition and access to information remain restricted. AFP filmed in the capital, Tashkent, at polling stations and with a mobile team taking a ballot box to elderly people voting from home.
The departure of hundreds of Russian Wagner troops from the Central African Republic is part of a rotation of forces rather a withdrawal, a spokesperson for the C.A.R. presidency said on July 8.
Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters broke up a Gay Pride festival in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on July 8, scuffling with police and destroying props, including rainbow flags and placards, though there were no reports of injuries.
Lancet suicide drones have had significant success targeting Ukrainian armor, including high-value Western weapons. The drones have spawned increasingly unorthodox countermeasures.
NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect U.S. President Joe Biden and other alliance leaders meeting next week only 32 kilometers from Lithuania's razor-wire topped border fence with Russian ally Belarus.
Mercenary fighters of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner group are preparing to move to Belarus under the terms of a deal that defused their mutiny against Russia's military leadership, a senior commander of the group was quoted as saying.
Russia has requested a new meeting of the UN Security Council for July 11 to discuss last September's explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a senior Russian diplomat at the United Nations said on July 8.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected troops and overseen the training of newly formed units made up of contracted servicemen, his ministry said on July 8.
Germany opposes sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, its foreign minister said on July 7, a day after U.S. officials said Washington was planning to provide Kyiv with the weapons, widely denounced for killing and maiming civilians.
Russia said on July 6 it was expelling nine diplomats from Finland, Russia's neighbor and NATO's newest member, in a tit-for-tat measure.
The chief executive of the Nasdaq-listed Internet company Yandex faces prosecution in a Russian court for alleged offenses under the country’s so-called gay "propaganda” law, a notice on the court's website said on July 5.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's former election spokesman has been appointed to run the state news agency TASS, according to a government order published on July 5.
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