A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled to promote the four-year prison sentence for Russian nationalist and ex-rebel leader Igor Girkin.Girkin, a convicted war crook in the West much better understood by his pseudonym Igor Strelkov, was apprehended last summertime after criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin for his handling of the war versus Ukraine. In

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Russia has added the exiled actor Alexei Panin to its list of “terrorists and extremists,” the state-run TASS news agencyreported Tuesday, citing the state financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring.

A Moscow court in Februaryruled to place Panin, known for his roles in films like “The Star” (2002) and “Dead Man's Bluff” (2005), in pre-trial detention in a

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AMSTERDAM — An exhibition dedicated to political prisoners in Russia opened in the heart of the Dutch capital on Tuesday.

“Faces of Russian Resistance” displays 16 stories of politicians, activists, artists and public figures designated as political prisoners by human rights groups. 

“We understand that hundreds of people are now in prison based on p

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Major online sellers in Russia have started selling foreign-made household devices destined for the Ukrainian market, the business paper Kommersantreported Wednesday, mentioning local distributors.Among the e-commerce websites providing products planned for Ukrainian customers are Ozon and Wildberries, which have been discovered to offer Bosch cleaning

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A Moscow court on Wednesday turned down an appeal by imprisoned dissident Oleg Orlov to be removed from the Russian Justice Ministry's foreign representative list.Orlov, 71, who is serving a two-and-a-half-year jail term for criticizing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, was designated a foreign representative ahead of his sentencing in February.Moscow's

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Investigators on Wednesday browsed the home and offices of an EU parliament staffer as part of an examination into suspected Russian disturbance and corruption, the Belgian state district attorney's workplace said.According to a source close to the examination, the target of the raids is Guillaume Pradoura, a former assistant to embattled EU legislator

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