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A new investigative report alleges opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was followed by agents linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) for almost a year before he was assassinated on a bridge leading to the Kremlin in 2015.

Ukrainian forces say they have liberated the village of Lukyanivka in the Baryshivka district of Kyiv and that dozens of Russian soldiers were killed, several armored vehicles were destroyed, and at least three tanks were captured.

Leading independent Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, which is edited by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, says it is suspending operations after receiving official warnings.

A court in Moscow has canceled a suspended three-year prison sentence for prominent Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov that he was handed in an embezzlement case that many have called politically motivated.

Sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian peace negotiators suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning earlier this month after a meeting in Kyiv, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

The Russian girlfriend of a Belarusian opposition journalist who were both arrested when their plane was forced to land in Minsk last year triggering global outrage has gone on trial. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian central bank, the government, and Gazprom to present proposals by March 31 gas payments in rubles from “unfriendly countries,” including all European Union states.

Dozens of people who celebrated Norouz in Iran's Kurdistan Province have been detained. Rights groups say the measures are an example of how the authorities are restricting the cultural rights of ethnic minorities in the Islamic republic.

Russia's media regulator has placed the Russian-language websites of three of RFE/RL's Central Asian broadcast services on its rapidly growing list of banned sites as a Russian media and information clampdown intensifies amid the month-old war in Ukraine.

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence has predicted "a total Ukrainian guerrilla" campaign against Russian occupation and warned that Russia hopes to divide Ukraine like the Korean Peninsula was partitioned after World War II.