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Russia Jails Ukraine Resident For 16 Years Over Charges Of 'Treason'
Russia on Friday sentenced a resident of east Ukraine's Lugansk region to 16 years in prison for "high treason", Moscow's FSB security service said.
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'Like WWII Concentration Camp': Ex-US Marine's Experience In Russian Prison
Paul Whelan was taken and locked inside a cramped, nine-foot-square cell in Moscows Lefortovo Prison, known for holding political prisoners.
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Russia, Ukraine Swap 206 Prisoners Of War In UAE-Brokered Deal
Moscow and Kyiv swapped 103 prisoners of war each on Saturday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, a rare moment of coordination between the two warring sides as Russia pushes ahead in east Ukraine.
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Russian Court Imprisons 5 Men Over Anti-Israel Riots At Dagestan Airport
A court in southern Russia on Friday sentenced five men to more than six years in prison each in the first convictions related to a mass anti-Israel protest last October at an airport in the predominantly Muslim Dagestan region.
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Russian Spy Couple Returns From Slovenia, Children Don't Recognise Putin
Their parents were posing as an Argentine couple in Slovenia and were later convicted of spying. The two children accompanied them to Moscow on Thursday from Turkey
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How Putin Might Gain Or Lose From Prisoner Swap With West
When eight Russian citizens including a convicted hitman touched down in Moscow on Thursday in a historic prisoner swap with the West, President Vladimir Putin greeted them like heroes.
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Who Is Vadim Krasikov, The Assassin Freed In Russian Prisoner Swap
Vadim Krasikov, a Russian freed from jail in Germany on Friday in a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, was convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant as he walked in broad daylight in a park in central Berlin.
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Putin Meets Freed Russian Prisoners At Moscow Airport
President Vladimir Putin late on Thursday met Russian citizens, who were detained in foreign countries and returned to their homeland after a prisoners' exchange deal, at Vnukovo Airport here.
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Russia Sentences Ex-US Paratrooper To 13 Years In Jail On Drug Charges
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced U.S. citizen Michael Travis Leake to 13 years in prison on drug smuggling charges, Moscow's court service said in a statement.
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Russia, Ukraine Exchange 95 Prisoners Of War
Russia and Ukraine have released a total of 190 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner exchange between the two sides, officials in Moscow and Kyiv announced Wednesday.
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From Spa Worker To Activist: How Life Of A Russian Changed Amid Ukraine War
Two years ago, Anastasia was working for a spa in Moscow and "life was good". Russia's offensive in Ukraine changed everything and turned her into an activist. She has stayed in Russia to fight in her own way.
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Russian Activist Sentenced To 15 Years For Slew Of Anti War Acts
A Russian military court sentenced an anti-war activist in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk to 15 years in prison on Friday for crimes including setting fire to a military commissariat and desecrating the graves of Russian soldiers killed in Ukrain
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Russia Sends Journalist To 2-Month Custody For Links To Alexei Navalny Group
A Moscow court on Friday ordered a journalist who covered the trials of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be held in pre-trial detention on "extremism" charges.
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Russia Jails Journalist For 2 Years For Opposing Ukraine War
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a journalist to two years in prison for denouncing Moscow's full-scale military offensive on Ukraine, as police in Moscow detained five other reporters over a 24-hour period.
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Russian Anti-War Poet Gets 7-Year Jail Term Over Poem On Ukraine War
A Moscow military court has sentenced a Russian poet to seven years in prison for verses questioning the morality of Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a letter he wrote to a Russian activist.
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Russia Jails Ukraine Resident For 16 Years Over Charges Of 'Treason'
Russia on Friday sentenced a resident of east Ukraine's Lugansk region to 16 years in prison for "high treason", Moscow's FSB security service said.
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'Like WWII Concentration Camp': Ex-US Marine's Experience In Russian Prison
Paul Whelan was taken and locked inside a cramped, nine-foot-square cell in Moscows Lefortovo Prison, known for holding political prisoners.
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Russia, Ukraine Swap 206 Prisoners Of War In UAE-Brokered Deal
Moscow and Kyiv swapped 103 prisoners of war each on Saturday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, a rare moment of coordination between the two warring sides as Russia pushes ahead in east Ukraine.
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Russian Court Imprisons 5 Men Over Anti-Israel Riots At Dagestan Airport
A court in southern Russia on Friday sentenced five men to more than six years in prison each in the first convictions related to a mass anti-Israel protest last October at an airport in the predominantly Muslim Dagestan region.
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Russian Spy Couple Returns From Slovenia, Children Don't Recognise Putin
Their parents were posing as an Argentine couple in Slovenia and were later convicted of spying. The two children accompanied them to Moscow on Thursday from Turkey
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How Putin Might Gain Or Lose From Prisoner Swap With West
When eight Russian citizens including a convicted hitman touched down in Moscow on Thursday in a historic prisoner swap with the West, President Vladimir Putin greeted them like heroes.
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Who Is Vadim Krasikov, The Assassin Freed In Russian Prisoner Swap
Vadim Krasikov, a Russian freed from jail in Germany on Friday in a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, was convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant as he walked in broad daylight in a park in central Berlin.
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Putin Meets Freed Russian Prisoners At Moscow Airport
President Vladimir Putin late on Thursday met Russian citizens, who were detained in foreign countries and returned to their homeland after a prisoners' exchange deal, at Vnukovo Airport here.
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Russia Sentences Ex-US Paratrooper To 13 Years In Jail On Drug Charges
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced U.S. citizen Michael Travis Leake to 13 years in prison on drug smuggling charges, Moscow's court service said in a statement.
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Russia, Ukraine Exchange 95 Prisoners Of War
Russia and Ukraine have released a total of 190 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner exchange between the two sides, officials in Moscow and Kyiv announced Wednesday.
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From Spa Worker To Activist: How Life Of A Russian Changed Amid Ukraine War
Two years ago, Anastasia was working for a spa in Moscow and "life was good". Russia's offensive in Ukraine changed everything and turned her into an activist. She has stayed in Russia to fight in her own way.
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Russian Activist Sentenced To 15 Years For Slew Of Anti War Acts
A Russian military court sentenced an anti-war activist in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk to 15 years in prison on Friday for crimes including setting fire to a military commissariat and desecrating the graves of Russian soldiers killed in Ukrain
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Russia Sends Journalist To 2-Month Custody For Links To Alexei Navalny Group
A Moscow court on Friday ordered a journalist who covered the trials of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be held in pre-trial detention on "extremism" charges.
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Russia Jails Journalist For 2 Years For Opposing Ukraine War
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a journalist to two years in prison for denouncing Moscow's full-scale military offensive on Ukraine, as police in Moscow detained five other reporters over a 24-hour period.
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Russian Anti-War Poet Gets 7-Year Jail Term Over Poem On Ukraine War
A Moscow military court has sentenced a Russian poet to seven years in prison for verses questioning the morality of Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a letter he wrote to a Russian activist.
