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Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko announced a state of emergency in that southern Russian port city due to forest fires engulfing the outskirts of several villages and threatening others in the Krasnodar region.
Russia's Justice Ministry has added blogger Daria Bogdanova and the VChK-OGPU (Russian Crime project) Telegram channel to its "foreign agents" register.
Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, on July 11 added Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Aleksei Navalny, to its registry of "terrorists and extremists."
The Central Securities Depository of Kazakhstan said on July 11 that it had ordered brokers and management companies to divest Russian securities from their holdings by August 1.
The Moscow City Court on July 11 rejected an appeal filed by veteran rights activist Oleg Orlov against his imprisonment.
After almost a week of being denied access, a lawyer for imprisoned opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was finally allowed to see his client in a prison hospital in Siberia amid concerns over the Kremlin critic's safety and health.
The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow on July 9 sentenced a shoemaker, Nikolai Kolin for sending 5,000 rubles ($57) to the so-called Russian Volunteers' Corps (RDK) that has fought alongside Ukraine's armed forces against occupying Russian troops.
Media reports in Russia said on July 9 that a court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg sentenced five Tajik men to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges.
Russia's Justice Ministry has added two more independent journalists -- Olesya Gerasimenko and Sergei Yezhov -- to its "foreign agent" list.
Friends and relatives attended a funeral near Kyiv on July 5 for Aidos Sadyqov, a Kazakh opposition activist and journalist. Sadyqov was shot while sitting next to his wife in their car on June 18 near their home in the Ukrainian capital, where they both lived in exile.
Kazakh activist Abzal Dostiyarov was summoned by police on July 4 amid pressure being applied on rights activists during the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Astana.
Kazakh political activist Aidos Sadyqov has died in a hospital two weeks after being shot in Kyiv, according to his wife and Ukrainian prosecutors.
As Ukrainians marked Constitution Day on June 28, Moscow unleashed a fresh wave of drone and artillery strikes on southern and eastern regions for the second day in a row, killing at least four people in a village in the Donetsk region, one person in Dnipropetrovsk, and injuring others in Kharkiv.
Music streaming service Spotify has removed the pages and songs of several Russian artists who supported the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops are fighting to hold a key road between the cities of Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region as Russian forces try to advance. Attacks in the area have intensified as Moscow looks to seize more Ukrainian land.
Russian authorities on June 27 added Artyom Kriger, a journalist with the independent SotaVision Telegram channel, to the list of terrorists and extremists.
Russia pounded Ukraine with air strikes early on June 27 and shelled civilian settlements in the frontline eastern region of Donetsk, killing at least one person and wounding 14, the military and regional officials said.
Russia's Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on June 26 sentenced in absentia five foreign nationals to prison terms for joining Ukraine's armed forces fighting against Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon was challenged on his pro-Kremlin stance over Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine and how Russian-speakers are treated in his country. In an exclusive interview with Current Time, Dodon refused to say that Russia was to blame for the conflict in Ukraine.
Gunmen killed at least 20 police officers and civilians in attacks on two synagogues, two Russian Orthodox churches, and police targets in two cities in Russia’s Daghestan region on June 23. Here's what is known about the attacks, and what could be behind them.
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