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Another Russian billionaire has renounced his Russian citizenship amid Moscow's ongoing, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Federal Security Service (FSB) to take charge of security measures for a strategic bridge after an apparent truck bombing damaged the structure linking Russia to the occupied Crimean Peninsula and dealt a humiliating blow to the Kremlin’s prestige.
Russia has resorted to using Shahed-136 drones from Iran in its war on Ukraine. Ukraine says it's already downed many of the drones, which work by slamming into their intended target, laden with explosives. Ordinary Ukrainians say they can already recognize the sound of the drones.
Ukrainian volunteers check the corpses of Russian soldiers for booby traps as they clear the area after fighting around freshly liberated Lyman. Current Time correspondent AndrIy Kuzakov also reports that a body was found with a sack on its head.
People in the Ukrainian capital are making preparations for a possible nuclear strike amid strong suggestions that Moscow is considering such an attack as its military falters.
A new Russian opinion poll shows that President Vladimir Putin's popularity has plunged and Russians feel "anxious, scared, horrified" after a partial military mobilization was announced last week.
Another Russian-appointed official has been killed in Ukraine's Kherson region.
Months after their mother was killed in an air strike on Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine's Donetsk region, two grieving sisters are struggling without their mom. Thirteen-year-old Kateryna and her 8-year-old sister, Yulia, are now living with their aunt and grandmother in Kyiv.
Russia-backed officials in four Ukrainian regions partially controlled by Moscow have announced the final results of so-called referendums on joining the Russian Federation, saying voters have "overwhelmingly" supported the annexation.
Russian poet and activist Artyom Kamardin, who was reportedly beaten and raped during his arrest, has been charged with inciting hatred over the presentation of his verses critical of the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine
Thousands of Russians have fled to Kazakhstan to avoid being drafted into the army to fight in Ukraine. In the Kazakh city of Oral, a movie theater is allowing Russians who can't find or afford housing in the city to stay there temporarily.
People in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan continued their protests against the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin last week. Videos shared on social media show Russian police using force against the protesters.
Many Ukrainians in the territories occupied by Russia are staying at home as they try to dodge soldier-escorted election officials forcing them to participate in a vote on annexation by Moscow.
Emotional scenes were repeated in various parts of Russia as mothers and wives sent off their sons and husbands to fight in Ukraine on September 22, a day after President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization.”
Amid Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian schoolchildren are receiving a new patriotism class that teaches them about the need to "defend the Motherland." But a few teachers have refused to teach the course. And some schools have received up to 50 complaint letters a day from parents.
Russian police detained protesters in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on September 21 as they gathered on a central square to protest against a partial military mobilization announced by President Putin amid recent Russian military losses in Ukraine during a Ukrainian military counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered what he called a partial military mobilization as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the seven-month mark and Kyiv has regained territory in a sweeping counteroffensive. Current Time reporters asked Russian residents how they feel about the announcement.
A Russian court sentenced a couple of self-declared anarchists to 21 months in a colony settlement for criticizing the Federal Security Service (FSB) by unfurling a protest banner at the agency's headquarters in 2018.
Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were scheduled to begin enforcing a ban on access to their countries for most Russians with EU visas on September 19, moving all four beyond the curbs recently agreed by all 27 EU members.
The chairman of the Attorneys' Chamber in Russia's Udmurtia region, Dmitry Talantov, has been accused of committing five crimes and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
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