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Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny did not appear at a scheduled court hearing on Monday and has not been seen or heard from in 15 days. Amid speculation that he has been secretly moved to another prison or is seriously unwell, the UN has raised concerns of an “enforced disappearance” that would coincide with the launch of President Vladimir Putin’s campaign for re-election in March 2024. 

Footage from the horrifying incident shows another adult and a child emerging frightened from the car.

Russia school shooting: 14-year-old girl kills a friend before committing suicide A tragic incident unfolded in southwest Russia as a…

Pro-Russia Ukrainian politician shot dead near Moscow Illia Kyva, a former pro-Russian member of Ukraine’s parliament who had been residing…

NATO member Finland on Wednesday closed its last remaining border crossing with Russia after the government decided to seal the entire border with its eastern neighbor amid rising political tensions.

‘The state can offer them a kind of deal, in which a woman’s sentence is terminated and in case she gives birth during such a “vacation”, the rest of the term is cancelled.’

He previously criticised Putin for allowing a ‘third-ranking’ air force.

Alsu Kurmasheva is a dual US-Russian citizen and journalist who has been detained by Russia since October 18, charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent” despite having travelled to Russia for a family emergency. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Her husband has called for the State Department to designate her as “wrongfully detained”. “She is a US citizen and has the same rights as any US citizen,” he says.

An insidious war-time theft has been kept under wraps, until now.

The train – said to be carrying a white powder – was around 130 miles from Moscow when an explosion derailed it