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Russians have commemorated the founder and leader of Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin on the 40th day since his death, a Russian Orthodox tradition to honor those who have passed away.
Anastasia Yemelyanova, a noted anti-war feminist activist from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been found dead in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, her friend Anastasia Polozkova said late on September 24.
The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on September 18 that a Russian national, Maksim Marchenko, who has resided in Hong Kong for years, has been taken to the United States and charged with smuggling U.S.-produced dual-use microelectronics to Russia.
A court in the Russian Far Eastern town of Belogorsk on September 13 sentenced a 71-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who has cancer to four years in prison after finding him guilty of organizing activities of a banned organization.
A court in the Siberian city of Kransoyarsk on September 14 sentenced the former prefect of Moscow’s Northern Administrative Precinct, Oleg Mitvol, to 4 1/2 years in prison in a high-profile embezzlement case.
A court in Russia's Far East has refused to transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across the country for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
Nastya Subbotina, a young woman from Moscow, spent a year teaching in Siberia, where she photographed her students and the austere landscapes of Evsino, a place that resonated deeply with her.
A Russian court in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk sentenced five soldiers to prison time for leaving their military units after being mobilized.
Known for coal mines and factories, Russia’s Kuzbass region has struggled for years with poverty, declining opportunities, and environmental destruction wrought by industrial pollution. Now, they’re also coping with the growing toll of dead and wounded from the Ukraine war.
Anton Kartavin, an independent lawmaker in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, said on August 22 that he discovered cables from an apparent hidden camera in his office, stressing that he will request police investigate the situation.
Russian prosecutors asked a court in the Siberian city of Abakan on August 22 to sentence the award-winning editor in chief of the Novy fokus (New Focus) online newspaper, Mikhail Afanasyev, to six years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Five former officials at a Siberian penitentiary have been handed prison terms in a high-profile case involving the torture and rape of an inmate from the Republic of Tyva.
A top former Kremlin bodyguard who was serving a 10-year sentence on bribery charges has died in prison after an unspecified illness, a prison monitoring official said.
The governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye, Oleg Kozhemyako has announced a state of emergency in the region hit by floods caused by Typhoon Khanun.
Typhoon Khanun has caused floods in seven districts and left at least three people dead in Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye.
Residents of the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok complained on August 9 that a huge explosion had woken them up at around 3:30 a.m. local time.
In a rare move, a Russian court has acquitted two Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism charges.
A court in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, has sentenced a 19-year-old man from Siberia to six years in prison on treason charges.
A military court in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula said on July 31 it had sentenced a soldier to 30 months in a colony settlement for refusal to go to war in Ukraine.
A Russian court sentenced a taxi driver to 18 years in prison on July 28 for setting the entrance of the National Guard's headquarters in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on fire in June last year.
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