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Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone was shot down on March 10 in the Leningrad region near the village of Fornosovo after operations were suspended at the nearby Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.
A district court in St. Petersburg has sent Yevgeny Smirnov, a local resident accused of painting the words "Putin killed Navalny," to serve a month in pretrial detention on hooliganism charges.
The governor of Russia's southwestern Kursk region has said a fire broke out at a local oil depot due to a Ukrainian drone strike.
President Vladimir Putin sent a mixed message to Russia's women to mark International Women's Day, lauding their contribution in the war against Ukraine while emphasizing that the most important duty for women is the "relentless care of children."
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned Americans in a security alert posted on its website late on March 7 of an imminent threat of attacks on large gatherings in the Russian capital in the next two days.
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch took to a stage in London on March 6 to read a letter from Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who died last month while being held in an Arctic prison on a conviction he and his supporters say was politically motivated.
The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces said Kyiv is aiming to conduct a counteroffensive in 2024, even as the outmanned and outgunned military has faced criticism for a perceived lack of progress during its drive against invading Russian troops over the past six months.
Russia has labeled Garry Kasparov, the self-exiled opposition politician and a co-founder of the Free Russia Forum, on its register of “terrorists and extremists” for undisclosed reasons, an action generally used by the Kremlin to crack down on political opponents.
A court in the city of Korolyov near Moscow on March 6 sentenced journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about Russia's military.
The Indian Embassy in Moscow said on March 6 that an Indian national, Shri Mohammed Asfan, "tragically died" and his remains will be repatriated from Russia.
A gasoline-storage depot in Russia's western region of Kursk near the Ukrainian border caught fire after being hit by two Ukrainian drones on March 6, the regional governor said, adding that there were no casualties.
Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin, whom election officials refused to register as a candidate for this month's presidential election, announced on March 6 what he called the recruitment of "observers" for the vote.
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched a package of Russian-language satellite news channels that it said would provide independent journalism for Russian speakers.
When Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow on March 1, thousands gathered outside the cemetery. Since then, thousands more have defied official warnings and paid their respects at his grave. And many took to social media to say farewell.
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov of Russia's Belgorod region said on March 5 that an important building in the region's Gubkin district was hit by a fire caused by an explosion.
The Main Directorate of Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR) said high-tech Ukrainian sea drones struck and "sunk" the Russian patrol vessel Sergei Kotov off the coast of occupied Crimea in what appears to be the latest sinking of a Russian ship well behind enemy lines.
Russian actor and Kremlin critic Mikhail Yefremov, who is serving a prison sentence for killing a man while driving under the influence, may be granted an early release.
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for Petro Vrublevskiy, the former Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan, on a charge of inciting hatred.
An explosion early on March 4 damaged a railway bridge in Russia’s south-central Samara region, causing Russian authorities to suspend traffic on the line.
A Russian mercenary who fought with the private military company Wagner in Ukraine has been arrested in Kirov in connection with the rape of a 22-year-old woman.
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