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U.S. says associate of Russian oligarch Vekselberg charged over sanctions evasion

U.S. prosecutors charged a Russian citizen who was also a U.S. resident with facilitating a sanctions evasion and money laundering scheme in relation to billionaire Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, in an indictment unsealed in federal court on Tuesday, the Justice Department said.

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Russia accuses U.S. embassy of 'fake news' over Ukraine, threatens expulsions

Russia has demanded that the U.S. embassy in Moscow stop spreading what Moscow regards as fake news regarding its military operation in Ukraine and has threatened to expel U.S. diplomats, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.

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Ukraine, Russia swap prisoners; bodies of British volunteers returned

Ukraine and Russia traded almost 200 prisoners of war in a swap announced separately by both sides on Saturday, with the bodies of two British volunteers also being sent back to Ukraine.

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Russia, Ukraine swap prisoners as battle for Bakhmut rages

Russia says 63 Russian soldiers were released while Ukrainian authorities say 116 of their servicemen have been freed.

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Russian oligarch ordered to forfeit $5.4 million to U.S., Ukraine may get funds

U.S. prosecutors may confiscate $5.4 million belonging to sanctioned Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, a judge ruled on Thursday, paving the way for the funds to potentially be used to help rebuild war-ravaged Ukraine.

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Former Russian soldier reveals he saw Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured

Konstantin Yefremov escaped Russia after serving three months as a lieutenant in Zaporizhzhia oblast

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Russian officer admits troops guilty of torture including knocking prisoner's teeth out

Russian defector Konstantin Yefremov was deployed to Ukraine last year from Chechnya, in Russia's North Caucasus, and witnessed brutalities against Ukrainians

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Putin foe Navalny says he's in solitary cell for 6 months

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says prison authorities have placed him in a one-person cell for the next six months

The Independent UK

Russian journalist sentenced for speaking out on Ukraine

A Moscow court has sentenced a Russian journalist in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military, the latest move in the authorities’ relentless crackdown on dissent.

Irish Independent

Russian journalist sentenced for speaking out on Ukraine

A court in Moscow has sentenced a Russian journalist in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military

The Independent UK

Wealthy Russian undertook $90 million hack-and-trade scheme, U.S. says at trial

A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin made tens of millions of dollars trading on secret financial information obtained by hackers about multiple companies before it was public, a U.S. prosecutor said Monday at the start of his trial.

Reuters

To defeat Putin, we must support the brave Russian journalists telling the truth

Despite a Soviet-style clampdown, we can help the exiles who are preserving independent journalism for Russians back home, says former Moscow correspondent Mark Rice-Oxley

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin pardons 'war hero' monster who ordered contract killing of family-of-4

Alexander Tyutin, who took a "hit" out on a family-of-four, is now relaxing on a Turkish beach after serving just 18 months of a 23-year sentence - because he fought for Russian warlord Vladimir Putin in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Russian court shuts down country's oldest rights group

A court in Moscow has ruled to shut down Russia’s oldest human rights organization

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Navalny supporters put replica cell outside Russian embassy in Germany

Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have placed a replica of the tiny “punishment cell” he has repeatedly been held in outside Russia’s embassy in Berlin, in an effort to raise awareness of his fate.

The Independent UK

Navalny supporters put replica cell outside Russian embassy

Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have placed a replica of the tiny "punishment cell" he has repeatedly been held in outside Russia’s embassy in Berlin, in an effort to raise awareness of his fate

Reuters

Jailed Navalny vows to keep resisting the Kremlin, Russia dismisses health concerns

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday used the second anniversary of his incarceration to reinforce his promise to keep up his opposition, as his family and allies started a campaign to free him.

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Russia says Britain's foreign minister yet to answer for supporting Kyiv

Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said late on Monday that British Foreign Minister James Cleverly, who has been sanctioned by Moscow over Ukraine, is yet to answer for his support of Kyiv.

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Belarus opposition leader denounces her trial as 'farce'

DAVOS (SWITZERLAND) - Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called her trial in absentia, set to start on Tuesday, a "farce" and "revenge" from President Alexander Lukashenko, saying she had not been given access to court documents.

Daily Mirror

Russia's worst rapist who killed 83 women volunteers to fight for Putin in Ukraine

Sex attacker Mikhail Popkov is serving two life sentences for the murder of 83 women but now the serial killer wants to be released to fight for Russian forces in Ukraine

Evening Standard

Russia and Ukraine agree to swap 40 prisoners of war each after talks

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a significant prisoner of war swap deal as both sides reportedly gear up for a major spring offensive.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin awards armed robber with 'courage' honour for fighting in Ukraine

Hayk Gasparyan, 31, was freed from his maximum security jail under a scheme allowing hardened prisoners to serve in pro-Kremlin forces illegally invading Ukraine

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Zelenskyy revokes Ukrainian citizenship of Putin ally Medvedchuk

Ukraine’s president has stripped four people of citizenship, including a Kremlin ally transferred in a prisoner swap.

Reuters

Zelenskiy strips Putin ally Medvedchuk, three others of Ukrainian citizenship

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stripped four political figures of their Ukrainian citizenship on Tuesday, including pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk who was transferred to Russia last year in a prisoner swap deal.

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Moscow threatens Russian actor with criminal charges after Ukraine war criticism

Moscow accuses Arthur Smolyaninov of making ‘a series of statements directed against Russia’

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