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Romania's Foreign Ministry says two Romanian journalists were briefly detained by security forces of the breakaway region of Transdniester, a sliver of land inside Moldova held by Kremlin-backed separatists.

The trial of Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Krai whose arrest in 2020 caused monthslong protests in the region, has opened in a Russian court.

Noted historian Yury Dmitriyev, who is also the local head of the Memorial human rights group in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia, has arrived at a penal colony in Mordovia -- an area historically associated with some of Russia’s most brutal prisons.

A municipal lawmaker in the Siberian city of Omsk has been detained over his recent online posts and articles about Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Russia says it has decided to "dramatically" decrease its military activities around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the northern city of Chernihiv, raising hopes that progress is being made toward a cease-fire more than a month after Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

A Belarusian Greek Catholic priest has been fined for having a bumper sticker on his car saying: "Ukraine, Forgive Us."

A Russian historian,who is also the head of the Memorial human rights group in the northwestern region of Karelia will soon be transferred from a detention center in the city of Petrozavodsk to a penal colony to serve a lengthy prison term on charges he and his supporters have staunchly denied.

Russian Court Rejects Gulag Historian’s 13-Year Sentence Appeal Feb. 16, 2021 Yury Dmitriyev spent decades exhuming mass graves of people killed under Stalin-era repressions. Igor Podgorny / TASS A St. Petersburg court has upheld prominent Gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev’s 13-year prison sentence Tuesday in a child sexual abuse case that activists and other prominent figures call politically motivated. Dmitriyev, 65, was due...