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An unknown attacker threw a training grenade at BBC News Russian Service journalists holding a party at a bar in central Riga on the evening of Dec. 23, according to independent Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta, citing a witness report.

Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry has declared Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (HUR) head, Kyrylo Budanov, wanted, Russian propaganda agency TASS declared.

Republicans in the US Senate have blocked an aid bill for Ukraine and Israel after failing to secure compromises on border and immigration reforms. Meanwhile, Russias upper house of parliament has voted to hold Russias presidential election on 17 March next year.

Two Russian servicemen, Colonel Anatoliy Bondarev and Major Dmytriy Dmytrakov, have been sentenced to four years in prison by the 2nd Western Military District Court in Moscow, Russian propaganda outlet Kommersant reported on Dec. 6.

The FINANCIAL -- Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to designate LGBTQ activists as "extremists" and ban their activities, in the latest move against expressions of sexual orientations and genders in Russia, Deutsche Well reported. The Justice Ministry had requested the recognition of "the international LGBT social movement" as extremist and to ban its activities.The FINANCIAL -- Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to designate LGBTQ activists as "ex...

Alexei Navalny, 47, is already serving more than 30 years in prison, after being convicted of crimes including extremism - charges that his supporters

Former Kazakh Economy Minister Quandyq Bishimbaev faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted after the charge of murder was revised up to murder with extreme violence, Deputy Prosecutor-General Zhandos Omiraliev said on November 30.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on November 30 kicked off its annual summit in North Macedonia amid boycotts and criticism from some member states for the presence in Skopje of Russia's top diplomat as Moscow continues its war on Ukraine.

The human rights group Memorial has recognized Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody since October 18, as a political prisoner.

The Moscow city court rejected appeals by theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk against an extension of their pretrial detention on charges of justifying terrorism with the production of the play Finist-The Brave Falcon.