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RFE/RL has decried as "illegitimate" a Belarusian court's 18-month prison sentence for one of its journalists for allegedly participating in demonstrations that Aleh Hruzdzilovich says he was covering.

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Staff at Ukrainian nuclear sites, Zaporizhzhya and Chernobyl, are being held by Russian forces and working under the barrel of a gun, according to the former head of Ukraine's nuclear inspectorate. Speaking to Current Time on March 4, Hrihory Plachkov said it was an extremely dangerous situation.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Russian opposition activist and former Moscow lawmaker Yulia Galyamina has been detained and charged with violating the law on public events over her attempt to organize a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A Russian air strike has killed six people, including a child, in the village of Markhalivka near Kyiv, regional police say.

An ethnic Kazakh from China's northwestern province of Xinjiang who was held in immigration custody in Ukraine for months says he has been released and is on his way to an unspecified Western country.

Thousands of people from across Ukraine continued to flood into the main railway station in the western city of Lviv on March 4 with the hope of traveling to neighboring Poland. Current Time spoke to some of those who had fled from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been repeatedly attacked by invading Russian forces.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor opened an investigation Wednesday into possible war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Ukraine dating back to 2013, but also covering the conflict sparked by Russia’s invasion.

Russia is censoring any news describing Russias actions as an "assault," "invasion," or a "war" as well as any articles mentioning antiwar protests, attacks on cities or the killing of civilians.