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According to the Public Relations Center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Evan Gershkovich, "acting at the behest of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of an enterprise within Russia’s military-industrial complex"

A Russian Political science professor who is a supporter of Putin and the war in Ukraine wrote a column published on the online portal of the conservative daily Vzglyad, defending the role of the military correspondents, bloggers in particular.

Western sanctions against Russian oligarchs have failed because the Kremlin has proven quite adept at circumventing or nullifying their effects.

An investigator from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) asked a Moscow court to keep detained American journalist Evan Gershkovich behind bars until August 30.

On Saturday, Russian authorities announced a criminal investigation into a recent burning of a copy of the Quran in Volgograd after a video of a man committing the act appeared online.

The Battle of Bakhmut remains in the international spotlight, even as the active combat zone on the Ukrainian frontlines now stretches for over 900 miles (Zelenskiy Official, March 18). The Russians need Bakhmut to facilitate their further efforts to advance the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. As urban warfare is challenging and costly as far as manpower …

On May 6, an Audi Q7 carrying Zakhar Prilepin was blown up in the village of Pionersky in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Region, leaving the writer wounded and killing his security guard

Russian Investigative Committee charged Alexander Permyakov, the suspect in the attempted murder of Russian writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin, with terrorism.

Investigators are petitioning for the election of a measure of restraint against Alexander Permyakov in the form of detention

The Russian Investigative Committee said on Saturday it had initiated a criminal case under the article on terrorist acts in connection with the explosion of a car of Zakhar Prilepin, the co-chairman of the political party A Just Russia — For Truth.