court on Friday put a Dutch national under arrest for violence towards authorities workers, a charge that carries approximately 10 years in prison.Moscow has actually jailed a number of Westerners since it began its major intrusion of Ukraine. A Moscow court has issued a preventative step for a resident of the Kingdom of the Netherlands implicated of
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Russia on Friday sentenced a Crimean man to 14 years in a penal colony on treason charges after it accused him of aiding the Ukrainian military.

Moscow regularly sentences people it accuses of working for Ukraine or of criticizing Russia's military offensive there, now in its third year, and has orchestrated a massive crackdown.

Russian media said

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President Vladimir Putin has all but abandoned the idea of peace talks with Kyiv following Ukraine’s Kursk region incursion, which dealt a “humiliating” blow to the Russian leader, the independent Poyasnitelnaya Zapiska (Explanatory Note) news outlet reported, citing sources close to the Kremlin.

“The Kremlin has come to a corresponding conclusion t

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Wearable electronic devices like those that Israel utilized to blow up Hezbollah members' pagers in Lebanon and Syria present a risk to the security of Russia and other previous Soviet states, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) stated Friday. Speaking at a meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) special services chiefs, Alexander
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Russian investigators seized 75 items, including snow and underwear, from the scene of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s death, the investigative news outlet Dossier Center reported Friday, citing documents it said it had obtained.

Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16 under murky circumstances, leading his allies to assert that he was

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Last month, Fortanga, an independent news outlet from the republic of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus, broke the news that the neighboring republic of North Ossetia-Alania was outlining to redraw the two regions' shared border.Documents gotten by Fortanga exposed that North Ossetian officials were hoping to include into their territory
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