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Observers speculated that the designation could lead to wider targeting of indigenous rights and decolonial activists in Russia.

Russian media said this was the first time that a minor had been imprisoned for their anti-war views.

Another 100 people were seriously injured by returning soldiers but survived.

As Congress held up vital aid for half a year, Russia exploited Ukraine’s dwindling supplies to bombard the country from the air to deadly effect.

Novaya Gazeta said earlier Thursday that it had obtained a copy of a draft decree suspending passport renewals and other consular services for Russians abroad starting May 1.

The Ukrainian port city was all but destroyed in a harrowing Russian siege at the outset of the Kremlin's invasion.

Anastasia Ivleeva was fined for an Instagram post from March 2022 in which she called for Russian-Ukrainian talks to end the conflict.

"We will get our way. But it will cause more problems for Ukraine itself."

"He was motivated by the fact that, since the start of the operation in Ukraine, he did not support the politics of Russia's leadership," the FSB statement said.

The young woman said she was coerced into pouring the green dye by phone scammers posing as FSB and Central Bank employees.

The uptick in civilian deaths came as Russian forces are pressing in hard in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Investigators said three members of an unidentified transportation security firm installed three fake bombs under two road bridges in the city of Tver.

The bill's passage comes after months of delay that saw Ukrainian forces run short of ammunition and suffer battlefield setbacks.

Analysts were divided on the reported succession plan for Kadyrov — and whether the region would be plunged into turmoil following his death.

The SBU said Metropolitan Arseniy was suspected of "disseminating information about the movement or location of armed forces" — a crime punishable by up to eight years in prison.

The high-profile arrest reflects the struggle for resources and influence within Russia's elite as Putin’s new term begins.

Without the resources or political will to pursue a policy of climate adaptation, experts warn that this spring's disaster will become the new norm.

Forty-eight children are set to be exchanged under the deal agreed in Qatar, Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said.

Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin said participants of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were the country’s “future elites.”

Dubbed “one of the richest siloviki,” Ivanov has been the subject of Russian media investigations into his and his family’s lavish lifestyles.