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Russia already fines people who ignore a governor’s orders — but only in regions under martial law. A new bill would make that punishable nationwide, even in peacetime.
For Russian men, renouncing citizenship is the only way to end military obligation for good. Abroad, that now costs almost 10 times more.
Arms manufacturers, aluminum smelters, and the cartoon ‘Masha and the Bear’: what’s on Ukraine’s latest sanctions list
Russia’s Supreme Court threw Yabloko off September’s Duma ballot. The antiwar party has just 4,000 members, but 8,000 people have applied to join in the last two weeks.
Jovan Savović, the architect behind the Dirty-ru blogging platform and invitation-only site Lepra, has died at 43
Russia’s second fuel crisis this summer: prices climbing, rationing in 59 regions, and now a motor oil shortage
Russia strikes Kyiv twice in one day, killing at least 17, as Zelensky vows a ‘long-range’ response
Russian rock bassist Dmitry Oganyan dies at 45 after being found in a St. Petersburg pond with a severed hand
Germany arrests 19-year-old accused of running online groups that groomed teens into self-harm and incited a fatal stabbing at a Russian school
The son of Russia’s former children’s rights commissioner was convicted of fraud, then decorated by Putin for wartime heroism. Now he faces fraud charges again.
A prosecutor who led Russia’s state seizures of Domodedovo Airport and other assets was fired, then quietly reinstated — with no public record of either move
Russian court drops case against senior citizen fined for firing his shotgun at Ukrainian drones over his yard
One in three apartment buildings in Kyiv has been damaged by Russian attacks
Poland detains Ukrainian suspected of trying to assassinate a Ukrainian defense industry official on Russia’s orders
Russian rock musician found dead in St. Petersburg pond with one hand severed, local media report
Russia’s terrorist list has a new youngest member. He’s 14 and accused of trying to set fire to a police car.
‘I just don’t want to kill or die’: Die Zeit reports that dozens of Ukrainian soldiers deserted during training in Germany
United Russia mayor forces Yabloko party candidate to take down banner reading ‘For peace and freedom’
Germany’s intelligence services opened a hotline for emigrants from Russia, China, and Iran fearing persecution
8,000 people apply to join anti-war Yabloko amid its removal from Russia’s State Duma race. That’s twice the party’s current membership.