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A Moscow court said on March 21 it has sentenced local resident Yury Samoilov to 14 days in jail for having an image of the shoulder sleeve insignia of Ukraine's Azov Regiment as a screensaver on his smartphone. Samoilov was found guilty of distributing extremist materials.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled their country after it announced conscription for its war in Ukraine, heading in large numbers to countries such as Turkey, Armenia, or Georgia. But for many living in the east of Russia, the nearest and easiest destination was Mongolia.
Residents in the village of Bohorodychne in Ukraine's Donetsk region say the village has changed hands 14 times between Ukrainian and Russian forces. Current Time's Borys Sachalko visited and spoke to some of the seven people who remain in what was once a large settlement.
Current Time's Borys Sachalko watches as a drone operator from Ukraine's 1st Tank Brigade targets Russian positions in the country's eastern Donbas region. He's also shown a Russian tank which Ukrainian forces say they seized after it was abandoned by its crew.
A lawmaker in the Russian region of Samara, Mikhail Abdalkin, who mocked President Vladimir Putin's annual address to lawmakers, has been fined 150,000 rubles ($1,975) on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
The former mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, who is under investigation on a controversial charge of "discrediting the armed forces" involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has been detained again, his lawyer Vladislav Idamzhapov said on March 16.
A 22-year-old resident of the town of Lukhovitsy near Moscow has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a local military enlistment center in late February last year.
"When there's an explosion, there's a terrifying boom, and then a deathly silence," says Lyuba, whose house is the only intact structure on her street in Bohoyavlenka, eastern Ukraine. Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko sent this report from the village.
The Moscow regional court sentenced a resident of the city of Serpukhov, Aleksandr Syomin, to 24 years in prison in a high-profile case over the molestation and murder of a 5-year-old Tajik girl in 2018.
A Moscow court has declared the bankruptcy of RFE/RL's operations in Russia following the company's refusal to pay multiple fines totaling more than 1 billion rubles ($14 million) for noncompliance with the so-called "foreign agents" law.
The family of a 16-year-old Russian who shared anti-Putin posts on social media and was later convicted on terrorism charges that his family has blamed on his politics has fled Russia with the help of a local anti-war group called Dozor.
Former Soviet military serviceman Yury Mel has been released from a Lithuanian prison after serving nine years for involvement in the deadly 1991 Soviet crackdown on the Baltic state's pro-independence movement.
Russian-imposed authorities in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk -- which Moscow claims to control -- have sentenced a well-known Ukrainian human rights defender to 13 years in prison.
The Kiselyovsk City Court in the Siberian region of Kemerovo on March 9 sentenced local activist Bulat Shumekov to seven years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces. S
The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on March 8 that a warrant has been issued for the seizure of a Boeing 737-7JU aircraft owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft.
Videos have been posted online showing Ukrainian recruitment officers wrestling with civilians on the streets, and even dragging them into vehicles. The authorities say these are isolated incidents.
Kyiv said on March 7 it had secured the release of 130 Ukrainian troops, including four women, in its latest prisoner swap with Russia.
The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAZh), which was liquidated in August 2022, has appeared in the Interior Ministry's updated list of extremist groups.
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, says anti-aircraft forces there downed three missiles on March 6.
Russian officials alleged that a group of Ukrainian saboteurs crossed into western Russia and fired on civilians in villages in the Bryansk region. A group calling itself the Russian Volunteer Crops claimed responsibility.
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