A Moscow court on Mondayarrested in absentia four allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

At least eight exiled Navalny associates face criminalcharges under wartime censorship laws, according to the Navally-affiliated news outlet Sirena.

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ordered Kira Yarmysh, Maria Pevchikh, Dmitry Nizovtsev and Anna B

Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Monday officially registered Vladimir Putin as a candidate in the March presidential election after his campaign submitted the required number of signatures endorsing his re-election bid.

Election authorities said Putin's campaign managed to collect some 315,000 signatures from citizens across the

Two people were shot dead in a Ukrainian border village on Saturday morning in a cross-border incursion by a Russian "reconnaissance and sabotage group," local officials said.

The attack happened in Ukraine's Sumy region inside a five-kilometer (three mile) buffer zone along the border with Russia -- an area where Kyiv had asked residents to