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Skochilenko, 33, was arrested last April for replacing price tags in a St Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages criticising Russias invasion of Ukraine. She has now been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for supposedly discrediting Russias armed forces.

One of the five men convicted over the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been pardoned after fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer says. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow police officer, was jailed for 20 years at a trial in 2014. His lawyer, Alexei Mikhalchik, said the pardon came after he had completed aOne of the five men convicted over the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been pardoned after fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer says. Sergei Khadzhiku...

Zelensky says Ukraine ‘will try to show results this year’ in counteroffensive

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to attack three nuclear power plants.

Zelensky says Ukraine ‘will try to show results this year’ in counteroffensive

Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 76 cases of railway sabotage committed by anti-war activists on the territory of the Russian Federation have reached the courts, according to a report published on the social network X (formerly Twitter) of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Wednesday morning.

In Makhachkala, Russia, participants of an antisemitic rally stormed the airport and tried to enter a plane from Tel Aviv, looking for Jewish people. The airport is closed. Source: Meduza, citing a number of Telegram channels Details: Hundreds of people gathered at the Makhachkala airport before the plane from Tel Aviv arrived.

On October 18, 2023, authorities in Kazan, Russia, detained Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor with RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service.

Opinion | Veteran Russian rights campaigner Oleg Orlov was fined 150,000 rubles ($1,500) on Wednesday on charges stemming from his public criticism of the invasion of Ukraine.  The 70-year-old co-chair of the Memorial human rights group is one of the few prominent anti-war voices to have remained in Russia following the invasion and to have not been jailed.

WASHINGTON, Oct 7, 2023 (BSS/TASS) - Washington provided no arguments for its decision to expel two Russian diplomats which does