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An activist from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has been released from pretrial detention where he was placed in April after being interviewed by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and helping him before the U.S. journalist himself was arrested on espionage charges.
A Russian court sentenced former Ukrainian fighter Denys Muryha on June 20 to 16 years in prison on charges of offering military training to conduct terrorist acts, and joining a paramilitary group called Aydar, which fought against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
General Electric (GE) has stopped servicing GE-made gas turbines installed at Russian thermal power plants with extended sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine coming into force.
The Russian Prosecutor's Office has designated prominent human rights group Agora, which has provided political and rights activists with legal advice, as "an undesirable organization" and banned its operations in the country.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don handed prison terms to four residents of Ukraine's Russian-annexed Crimea on June 19 on terrorism charges.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny faces an additional three decades behind bars in a new trial on extremism charges that started on June 19.
Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced in April to 25 years in prison after being convicted of state treason, said on June 18 that prison authorities have stopped delivering letters to him.
The delegation of African leaders visiting St. Petersburg for talks with President Vladimir Putin said the war in Ukraine not only affects Russia and the region but is also taking its toll on the rest of the world.
A project of the BBC and independent Russian media outlet Mediazona says it has confirmed the deaths of 25,528 Russian troops in the war with Ukraine.
Former Moscow policeman Maksim Zlobov turned in his badge after attending an anti-war rally. He says he fled Russia in April after a new law was passed making it more difficult to avoid conscription. He joins the hundreds of thousands of others who have left wartime Russia.
The Chamber of Attorneys in Moscow has stripped well-known Russian lawyer and outspoken Kremlin critic Ilya Novikov of his license to practice law for "behavior that disrupts trust."
Roman Starovoit, the governor of Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine, said on June 16 that it appears a drone hit a local factory producing pillows and blankets causing a fire at the facility.
A Moscow court on June 15 ordered veteran Russian rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, who currently resides outside of Russia, to pay a fine of 50,000 rubles ($600) for discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Australian lawmakers passed legislation on June 15 banning Russia from constructing its new embassy near parliament following intelligence service warnings about possible security threats.
A Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SS-100) plane with 54 passengers aboard made an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on June 15 after the air-conditioning system malfunctioned.
Anatoly Berezikov, a 40-year-old anti-war activist from Rostov-on-Don, died on June 14 in a special detention center in the Russian city, a day before his scheduled release, his lawyer Irina Gak said, adding his death was probably caused by torture.
The Russian State Duma has approved on its first reading a bill banning surgical and legal gender reassignment in the latest move by lawmakers to promote so-called "family values."
The Moscow City Court sentenced activist Vitaly Koltsov to six years in prison on June 14 after a jury found him guilty of attacking a police vehicle with two Molotov cocktails.
Law enforcement officers in Russia have searched the homes of several former lawmakers and a politician who allegedly have ties with former parliamentary deputy Ilya Ponomaryov, the fourth wave of raids on homes of individuals linked to him since September.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine is making progress in its counteroffensive against Russian invaders and predicted NATO leaders will increase military assistance to Kyiv when they meet next month.
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