Russian authorities on Friday added several close allies of the late activist Alexei Navalny to the government’s list of “extremists and terrorists.”

Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s former spokeswoman, and Maria Pevchikh, head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, are among the latest to be included on the Rosfinmonitoring list. According to the independent n

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St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison last year for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army after she replaced supermarket price tags with statements criticizing the invasion of Ukraine and the killing of Ukrainian civilians.

Defending her actions in a court hearing ahead of her sentencing, the

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Russia said Friday that it had fended off a night-time attack using 12 U.S.-made missiles on the landmark Crimea Bridge constructed on the orders of President Vladimir Putin after Moscow annexed the peninsula. Air defenses were utilized last night to deflect a group strike by 12 ATACMS rockets made in the U.S. on the Crimean bridge. All the missiles were

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Belarus once again claimed that Ukraine is preparing armed provocations with continued troop movements along their shared border, state media reported Friday.Kyiv previously claimed Minsk, Russia's close ally, was highlighting stress on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border to divert attention from Ukraine's incursion into Russian area. Given the p

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A crowded shopping mall in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk caught fire after alleged Ukrainian shelling on Friday.

Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-appointed governor of the Donetsk region, accused Ukrainian forces of wounding at least seven civilians in “targeted massive strikes” on southwestern Donetsk.

He said the attacks damaged a

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At least two regions in Russia’s Far East faced blackouts on Friday after authorities held previously scheduled regionwide power outage drills.

Peoplereported being stuck in traffic, at shopping malls and inside elevators in the regions of Khabarovsk and Primorye, where the city of Vladivostok is located.

Earlier, the Primorye region’s Energy M

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