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Smugglers are using drones to breach the border between Ukraine and Slovakia, supplying EU black markets with contraband cigarettes.
Russian prosecutors have recommended a 10-year prison term for former Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev for extortion, while the defendant asked the court to acquit him and called for perjury charges against the head of state oil giant Rosneft.
Vyacheslav Maltsev, an outspoken Kremlin critic and leader of an outlawed Russian nationalist opposition movement, says he has become a "political refugee" in the European Union.
After complaining about hazing in the Belarusian Army, a young conscript was found hanged, the second such suspicious case in recent months.
A series of anonymous bomb threats phoned in to authorities in cities across Russia have prompted evacuations at schools, shopping malls, theaters, and universities.
A court in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has fined a local activist for placing a plaque commemorating a victim of Soviet persecutions on a house that has protected status.
The new U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Washington is considering sending Kyiv weapons to help government forces defend themselves against Russia-backed separatists.
Russian protest performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky says he has fled Russia after authorities there questioned him regarding allegations that he raped a woman.
Russia's Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) daily newspaper has removed from its website an interview with a Russian analyst who speculated that President Vladimir Putin might step down before the next presidential election in 2018.
Hotels in Moscow and Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, will increase prices for foreigners in the next tourist season, according to a Russian tourism official.
The United States has called Russia's decision to suspend a cooperative program that commits the two countries to eliminating parts of their weapon-grade plutonium stocks "a big mistake."
A Russian performance artist who built a career thumbing his nose at the authorities now says he supports President Vladimir Putin -- even as he seeks asylum in Europe and fears arrest if he returns home.
A man who says his home was torched after he complained to Russian President Vladimir Putin about official corruption in Chechnya is staying away from the tightly controlled region and keeping the location of his family secret for fear of further reprisals.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on December 2 that the Kremlin is unaware of the latest public accusation by opposition blogger Aleksei Navalny concerning Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika and his sons.
