A bill submitted to the Russian parliament has raised fears that the thousands of Russian dissidents seeking political refuge in post-Soviet and other non-Western states could soon be at risk of arrest and extradition back to Russia. 

The bill, recently introduced to the lower-house State Duma by the ruling United Russia party, would allow

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High school students in Russia’s Far East were shown a graphic video of a medical abortion video during an unannounced lecture, the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported Friday.

“Many felt sick while watching,” the outlet wrote, citing students from school No. 7 in the Sakhalin region town of Okha, around 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) e

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Russian law enforcement authorities jailed the supervisor of a Russian defense contractor, accusing him of defrauding the military by supplying subpar devices, Russia's Investigative Committee stated Friday.Vladislav Pylsky, who handles a subsidiary of the Siberian Navigation Company, allegedly offered the military with items that did not mee
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U.S. intelligence officials think Russia might retaliate with deadly force if the Biden administration permits Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep within Russian territory, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing confidential sources knowledgeable about the matter.The caution comes as President Vladimir Putin this week revealed plans to
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Russian prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Alexander Permyakov, who is accused of trying to assassinate pro-war nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, the independent news website Mediazona reported Friday.

Permyakov was arrested last May after a car bomb wounded Prilepin and killed his security guard in the Nizhny Novgorod region. According

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A Moscow court has begun hearings into a 72-year-old American man accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, state media reported Friday.

The state news agency RIA Novosti identified the man as Stefan Hubbard, though another possible spelling of his name could be Stephen Hubbard.

In May, a Facebook user named Trisha Hubbard Fox claimed that her

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