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Officials in Russia's Kurgan region in the southern Urals are urging residents of districts threatened by flooding to evacuate immediately.
Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg called on thousands of residents to evacuate immediately on April 12 due to rapidly rising floodwaters after major rivers burst their banks due to a historic deluge of melting snow.
A former Ukrainian secret service employee was injured when a device under his car exploded in Moscow on April 12.
The bodies of 99 fallen Ukrainian soldiers were returned to Kyiv, Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported in a message on April 12.
Heavy rains and a rapid rise in temperatures causing a massive snowmelt continue to create "difficult" conditions in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan, with rivers bursting their banks amid forecasts that the worst may be yet to come.
Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) said two alleged militants were killed in a "counterterrorism" operation that started on April 11 in the North Caucasus.
Floodwaters continue to submerge large areas of southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan with officials predicting the worse is yet to come as a massive snowmelt amid unseasonably warm temperatures forced tens of thousands from their homes.
Russia's government-linked Baza Telegram channel said on April 10 that the Investigative Committee had launched a probe against Zalina Marshenkulova, a self-exiled activist journalist, on a charge of justifying terrorism.
A military court in Russia on April 10 sentenced two men to nine years in prison each in separate cases for their plans to join the Freedom of Russia legion fighting with Ukraine against Russian forces.
Magomed Gadzhiyev, a self-exiled former member of Russia's State Duma, is reportedly wanted for ordering the assassination of Maksud Sadikov, the rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations, and his driver in Daghestan in 2011.
Reuters cited three sources on April 8 as saying Russia had asked Kazakhstan to supply it with 100,000 tons of gasoline in case of shortages caused by Ukrainian drone attacks at Russian oil refineries.
Russian anti-war activist Aleksandr Demidenko, who helped hundreds of Ukrainian refugees in the Belgorod region to return to Ukraine, died in custody last week, his lawyer told his family.
Russia's government on April 7 declared flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported.
A dam burst on April 5 in the Russian city of Orsk in the Ural Mountains and an evacuation is under way, local emergency services said.
A Moscow court on April 5 sentenced 11 activists to prison terms between five years and eight years on charges of making online calls for mass unrest and inciting hatred.
A court in St. Petersburg has sent well-known Russian opposition activist and Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Skobov to pretrial detention until at least June 1.
The governor of Russia's Murmansk region was stabbed on April 4 after a meeting with residents in a local town hall, Russian news agencies quoted the governor's press service as saying.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on April 4 that it has detained three more Central Asian natives on suspicion of involvement in last month's attack on the Crocus City Hall entertainment center near Moscow that claimed more than 140 lives.
The Agentsvo Telegram channel says Wilmer Puello-Mota, a former city councilor in Holyoke, Massachusetts, who is wanted at home for the alleged possession of child pornography, forgery, and obstruction of justice, might have joined Russian troops invading Ukraine.
The French and Russian defense ministers spoke by phone on April 3 in a rare call that touched on the war in Ukraine and the terrorist attack at an entertainment venue outside Moscow nearly two weeks ago in which more than 140 people died.
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