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Tensions remained high on February 22 over Russia's decision to suspend its last nuclear arms treaty with the United States, although Russian and U.S. officials shared starkly differing interpretations going forward as lawmakers in Moscow finalized their interruption of the 2010 New START treaty.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is suspending its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last remaining nuclear arms accord with the United States, further raising concerns over global security during Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Police in Moscow have detained 18-year-old activist Maksim Lypkan after searching his and his father’s apartments for giving an interview to RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Six Russian soldiers were killed in the country’s Kursk region in a fire blamed on a “gross violation” of safety rules, Russian state media reported on February 20.
Associates of Andrei Pivovarov say the jailed activist has been located in a cell-type room (PKT) at the notorious IK-7 penal colony in Segezha after relatives and rights groups demanded information about his current whereabouts following what they called his "forced disappearance."
Some 700 assets in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea have been nationalized by the Moscow-installed authorities.
Several leading Russian political opposition figures have discussed possible scenarios for Russia's future at the Munich Security Conference.
Amnesty International has urged the Russian authorities to provide jailed activist Andrei Pivovarov's relatives and lawyers with information about his current whereabouts and stop what it called his "forced disappearance."
A top Russian Defense Ministry official has been found dead after apparently falling from a high-rise apartment building in St. Petersburg, the latest death of a senior official.
A Chechen man detained at a Moscow airport on his way to the Netherlands has most likely been sent back to Russia's North Caucasus, where he may face torture or even death for being gay, the SK SOS human rights group said on February 16.
Estonian authorities said on February 15 that they had canceled the residence permit of pro-Kremlin activist Sergei Chaulin and deported him to Russia, saying he poses a threat to the Baltic nation's state security and social order.
The Kremlin will not invite reporters from countries that Russia has deemed “unfriendly” to President Vladimir Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly next week.
Authorities in Kyiv said on February 15 that the city's air-defense forces shot down "most" of what they said were six Russian balloons that appeared over the city and might have carried intelligence equipment or reflectors to interfere with the air-defense system of Ukraine.
Investigative reports say Russian President Vladimir Putin has been using a specially built armored train for his official travel, while a secret railway network has been built near his residences.
The number of new identification documents issued in Russia due to gender change almost doubled last year, a Mediazona study based on data from the Interior Ministry said.
The Russian Justice Ministry has placed Zemfira, one of post-Soviet Russia's most popular singers, on a list of "foreign agents" on the grounds that she has supported Ukraine and criticized Russia's "special military operation" in that country.
The Russian Interior Ministry on February 10 added Aleksandra Garmazhapova, a noted Kremlin critic and the founder of the foundation A Free Buryatia, to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
A Crimean Tatar activist, Dzhemil Gafarov, who along with four other activists from Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea was sentenced to 13 years in prison on terrorism charges in January, has died in Russian custody.
A court in Russia has sentenced Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk region, to 22 years in prison after a jury convicted him of attempted murder and ordering two killings in 2004 and 2005, charges the former governor has steadfastly denied.
The last prime minister of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) within the Soviet Union, Ivan Silayev, has died at the age of 92.
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