A Moscow court has sentenced activist and student Dmitry Ivanov to 8.5 years in prison on charges of “spreading false information” about the Russian Armed Forces, the independent Mediazona news website reported Tuesday.

Ivanov, 23, the head of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel with over 9,000 subscribers, was arrested in

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Russia has reaffirmed its commitment to capturing the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, which for months has been the epicenter of fierce fighting, as a precursor for offensives deeper into eastern Ukraine.

The intense fighting in the east comes as Ukraine said it had identified a soldier filmed being shot dead in a video that sparked outrage on social

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Russia has lost approximately five soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier killed in the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut, CNN reported late Monday, citing NATO estimates.

Moscow’s forces, led by fighters from the Wagner mercenary group, have been waging brutal fighting for Bakhmut since August, taking severe casualties in pursuit of what would b

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The political repression driven by the invasion of Ukraine has drastically altered the landscape of Russia’s disparate opposition. While some well-established movements such as Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation have been forced to shut down inside Russia entirely, other initiatives to unite those opposed to the war in Ukraine have sprung

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Ukraine's foreign minister on Monday urged the International Criminal Court to probe video footage circulating on social networks that he said revealed Russian forces killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Horrific video of an unarmed Ukrainian POW carried out by Russian forces simply for stating 'Glory to Ukraine.' Another (piece of) proof this war is genocidal,
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updates with Transparency International Russia comment.

Russia has added global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International to its list of “undesirable” organizations, the Prosecutor General's Office announced on Monday.

“Formally declaring itself an organization that fights corruption around the globe, it interferes in the internal affairs o

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