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Russian LGBT activist and artist Yulia Tsvetkova -- who is involved in a high-profile pornography case involving nude drawings and other artwork -- said a court has issued a warrant for her arrest and added her to a wanted list.
Russia's Interior Ministry added the former adviser to Ukraine's presidential office, Oleksiy Arestovich, to its wanted list on unspecified charges a day after Arestovich participated in a forum for self-exiled Russian opposition activists and politicians in Estonia on October 2.
Thirty years on from the war in Abkhazia, civilians and fighters from both sides recall the upheaval that forever changed their lives, and the story of independent Georgia.
Bulgaria will ban the entry of cars with Russian license plates by the end of the day on October 2, the head of Bulgaria's border police, Anton Zlatanov has announced.
A Russian man sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting Russia's army in April, after anti-war drawings by his 13-year-old daughter drew attention to his online posts about the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, has been placed in punitive solitary confinement five times since August.
Ukraine's military on September 25 said the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet was killed along with 33 other naval officers in Ukraine's September 22 attack on the fleet headquarters in Russian-annexed Crimea city of Sevastopol.
Longtime Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has arrived at a maximum-security prison in Siberia to serve a 25-year- sentence for treason and criticism of the invasion of Ukraine and was immediately placed in a punishment cell, a lawyer said.
Several explosions were heard in an area close to a thermal power plant in the city of Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimea. The blasts occurred while rescue teams were cleaning up debris caused by a missile attack on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet earlier in the day.
Russian emergency officials said on September 21 that seven people, including two rescue workers, were killed after an explosion caused by a gas leak ripped through a nine-story apartment block in the city of Balashikha near Moscow a day earlier.
Capitalizing on "any gaps in the enemy's defense," Ukrainian troops said on September 12 they were slowly but steadily reclaiming ground in their counteroffensive to Russia's invasion. The cost is high, they explain, because Russian artillery usually razes retaken villages to the ground.
International monitoring organizations estimate thousands of Ukrainians have been illegally held prisoner and deported by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Their families fight for scraps of information while witnesses recount civilian arrests.
The head of Russia's legendary Bolshoi Ballet has acknowledged removing from the repertoire performances and artists linked to opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked Ukraine's Security Service and naval forces for their role in what he called the destruction of a Russian air-defense system in occupied Crimea.
Two Russian military vessels have been damaged in an apparent large-scale Ukrainian strike on a ship-repair base in Russian-occupied Crimea as Kyiv reported another barrage of Russian drones had struck port infrastructure in the Odesa region.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says former lawmaker Serhiy Polishchuk, who is currently out the country, is suspected of high treason for his appearances on Russian television where he "denied the existence of Ukraine" while allegedly taking money from Russian security authorities.
Russian prison inmates who were pardoned in order to fight with the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine are now reportedly being recruited into Russia's National Guard.
Lithuania says the number of Belarusian nationals seeking so-called foreigners' passports is likely to rise following a consular clampdown by Minsk but that Belarusians who fled the regime and have the proper documents can receive the alternative Lithuanian travel document in as little as five days.
Ukrainian soldier Artem Kholodkevych says he had no interest in taking a safe desk job far from the front after losing his leg to a Russian mine. After five months of walking with a prosthetic limb, he can move around the defensive trenches his fellow soldiers live in with ease.
An online campaign has been launched in Kazakhstan calling for the cancellation of shows by Azamat Musagaliyev, a prominent Russian comic of Kazakh origin, over his recent performance in Ukraine's Russian-controlled Donetsk region.
A statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, Cheka, was unveiled in front of the headquarters of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow on September 11.
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