A military court in southern Russia sentenced a Ukrainian special forces soldier to 20 years in prison after he was captured during a mission in annexed Crimea, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Oleksandr Lyubas was captured in October during an amphibious operation in which Ukrainian military intelligence soldiers reportedly arrived in Crimea on

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Russian police authorities decided to extend a preliminary examination into the death of Alexei Navalny at an Arctic prison earlier this year, the late opposition activist's allies stated Tuesday.Navalny was serving a 19-year jail sentence on extremism charges when he died under uncertain circumstances at the Polar Wolf penal nest on F
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Russian Orthodox priests drove around the western Bryansk area with a religious icon in an attempt to secure it from a possible Ukrainian attack, the local diocese said. Today's prayer was for the redemption of our fatherland and our native Bryansk area from opponent intrusion, the diocese of Bryansk stated in a social networks post published late
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At least 51 people were killed and hundreds wounded Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, authorities said, in one of the single deadliest strikes of the two-and-a-half-year war.

Kyiv said the strike hit a military education facility and a nearby hospital, though authorities did not say how many of the victims were

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The share of Russians who believe that authorities did everything they could to save the hostages in the Beslan school tragedy has reached its highest level in a decade, according to a new survey by the independent Levada Center pollster.

On Sept. 1, 2004, militants from Chechnya took over 1,100 civilians hostage at Beslan School No. 1 in Russia’s N

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A Moscow court on Tuesday extended the detention of a French researcher implicated of gathering info about the Russian military and breaching the nation's laws on foreign representatives. Laurent Vinatier, who worked for a Swiss dispute mediation NGO before he was apprehended in Moscow in June, faces up to five years in jail if founded guilty of the
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