Former deputy defense minister Timur Ivanov appeared in court Monday for the start of a high-profile embezzlement trial that could result in him spending years behind bars.

Ivanov, 49, who oversaw Russian military construction projects, was arrested in April 2024 as part of a broader Kremlin crackdown on military officials suspected of corruption.

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Jailed Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko delivered her final word in court on Monday, accusing the penitentiary system of abuse and violence as prosecutors seek to sentence her for allegedly assaulting prison guards.

Ponomarenko, 46, was sentenced to six years in prison in February 2023 for publishing information about the Russian bombing of a

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Actor Mikhail Yefremov will be released on parole after serving more than half of his eight-year sentence for a deadly driving while intoxicated crash, Russian media reported Monday.Yefremov, 61, was sentenced in 2020 to 8 years in a medium-security prison after he eliminated a van driver in a head-on collision while intoxicated. His sentence was later decreased
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Central Russia’s Oryol region has reportedly become the country’s first to offer financial incentives to schoolgirls who give birth after its governor signed a decree introducing the measure.

Oryol is among 40 Russian regions pledging to pay female university students at least 100,000 rubles ($1,200) for having children starting this year, the

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A big fire broke out Monday at a luxury penthouse in main Moscow's Khamovniki district, sending a thick plume of smoke into the sky.The blaze happened at the Roma Rossa property complex, designed and furnished by award-winning Italian architect Piero Lissoni, according to media reports.Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said it
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Military males are my warning now, writes Yevgenia, a blog writer from the Black Sea resort city of Sochi on Instagram.In 2022, Yevgenia's then-husband left to fight in Ukraine. A year later on, she discovered he had been unfaithful.She discovered of his affair by accident when his girlfriend wrongly included her to a secret Telegram chat. Right away, she
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