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Moscow, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) A Russian court sentenced an individual to 12 and a half years in prison who tried to sell confidential information on transport infrastructure to the Ukrainian intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday.

21-year-old Russian citizen Savely Frolov, who was arrested at the Verkhny Lars border crossing while attemping to enter Georgia, has been charged with preparing to defect to the enemy side (in accordance with several articles in the Russian Criminal Code). The news comes from human rights and legal organization Pervy Otdel [Department One], whose lawyers represent Frolov.

According to the Prosecutor General’s office, only one crime, classified as sabotage, was registered last year

Brittney Griner is back in the U.S. after being detained in Russia since March, but her release has not been without controversy.

He was charged under a newly introduced crime for disseminating “knowingly false information” denouncing Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

Amnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Ilya Yashin and all those imprisoned solely for expressing their opposition to the war of aggression.

Investigators have asked the district court to take the accused into custody from the moment of their actual detention, extradition or deportation to the territory of the Russian Federation

It was earlier reported that Moscow’s Meshchansky Court sanctioned the arrest in absentia of the son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Region, Artem Uss, based on a criminal case of large-scale money laundering

Earlier, the Russian Federal Security Service’s Center of Public Relations reported that the agency had foiled an act of terrorism at a transport terminal in Bryansk, plotted by Ukrainian intelligence services

Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image(NEW YORK) -- More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to take