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A young Komi-Karelian activist announced this month that he was able to escape Russia despite being featured as a key witness in a high-profile investigation handled by the Federal Security Service (FSB).  Nikita Goldin, 18, was detained by Russian security services in the northern port city of Arkhangelsk in September and taken in for an interrogation that lasted 10 hours.  FSB operatives also raided Goldin’s apartment in search of “swastikas and explosives,” but instead found and confiscated his “birth certificate, a school diploma, a thumb drive with childhood photos and one hard ...

Russia maintains manpower and avoids a politically risky call-up by offering contract soldiers what the Kremlin calls “very, very attractive” terms for signing up to fight in Ukraine. But RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, Systema, found numerous cases in which the promised benefits never came.

Pro-Kiev sources previously claimed that Adam Delimkhanov had been killed Russian MP Adam Delimkhanov has been wounded during the fighting

A Russian lawmaker from Chechnya who is a close ally of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been wounded in Ukraine, Russian media reported Wednesday.

Chechen commander and MP Adam Delimkhanov's whereabouts are unknown, but colleagues say he is alive.