Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in prison for spearheading historic protests against the former Soviet country's authoritarian leader.

Tikhanovskaya — who was forced to flee to neighboring EU member Lithuania after the protests sparked by a disputed presidential election in 2020 — was sen

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Corrects "eight-month jail sentence" with "eight months of community service."

A Russian court on Monday sentenced independent journalist Andrei Novashov to eight months of community service for spreading “falsehoods” about the Russian army, independent Russian TV channel Dozhd reported citing sources close to the journalist. 

Novashov, a freelance

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The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, which is spearheading the longest battle of Moscow's intervention in Ukraine, has complained his forces still lack ammunition, blaming possible "betrayal."

Kremlin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose recruits have been fighting for months to capture the battle-scarred city of Bakhmut, has been entangled in a

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited the war-battered city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, his ministry announced Monday, one year after his forces besieged the city, leveling it to the ground.

His visit comes as Russian forces are closing in on Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine that has become the stage of the longest-running

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday paid tribute to his soldiers combating in the uncomfortable and difficult fight for the country's frontline eastern Donbas region.He was speaking after Ukraine's general staff reported that its forces had combated more than 130 enemy attacks the previous day, consisting of in Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut

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