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Uzbekistan is planning to ban marriages between bloodline cousins, blaming the phenomenon for birth defects among newborns. One study claims that nearly 10 percent of the babies born with genetic disorders in Uzbekistan last year were the children of consanguineous marriages.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on July 26 that former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov had been arrested on corruption charges.
A Russian man suspected of being behind a car bombing that left two people wounded in Moscow on July 24 has been extradited from Turkey and has arrived in the Russian capital, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said on July 26.
Russian human rights defender Valentina Chupik says new legislation on migration adopted by Russia's State Duma this week will dramatically restrict the rights of labor migrants.
The mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin on July 24 signed a decree renaming the Square of Europe in Moscow's center into the Square of Eurasia.
How and when will Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 25-year rule come to an end? And who might take his place? These are the questions RFE/RL's Russian investigative unit posed to dozens of international Russia experts, who in all mentioned 34 possible successors by name.
Entrepreneurs in Kharkiv continue to work under constant shelling and often without electricity. The attacks on the city 40 kilometers from the Russian border have intensified in recent months with Russian forces having opened up a new front in the north of the Kharkiv region.
After U.S. President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, U.S. allies are wondering how the presidential campaign will affect them. Observers say Kamala Harris is expected to keep supporting Ukraine if she becomes president, but Donald Trump's potential approach is harder to predict.
Prosecutors in the western Belarusian region of Brest said on July 22 that a local woman was sentenced five days earlier to six years in prison for sending 4,400 rubles ($1,344) to the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment, consisting of Belarusian citizens, in Ukraine.
A Russian court on July 22 sent three teenagers -- two of whom were from Central Asia -- to pretrial detention until September 18 on an attempted-murder charge after a brawl last week with Mikhail Matveyev -- a member of the Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma.
A large Russian oil refinery in southern Russia sustained damage after it was set on fire early on July 22, regional officials said, as the Defense Ministry in Moscow said that it repelled a large Ukrainian drone attack targeting several regions.
A court in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg on July 19 cancelled the registration of the It's My City website at the request of media watchdog Roskomnadzor.
Our reporters recorded this exclusive footage in Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have been carrying out massive attacks for months. In early July, Ukrainian forces were pushed out of the east of the city, but fighting there continues.
In late June, drone footage appeared showing a soldier in Ukraine shooting a wounded comrade in the head. Russian state television and other pro-Kremlin media claimed the shooter was a Ukrainian “fascist.” But RFE/RL’s investigation concluded the soldiers in the video were Russians.
A Moscow court on July 18 sentenced U.S. citizen Michale Travis Leake to 13 years in prison on drug charges.
In June, drone footage emerged showing a soldier in Ukraine shooting a wounded comrade in the head and running off. Russian state TV and other pro-Kremlin media claimed the shooter was a Ukrainian "fascist." But an RFE/RL investigation found the soldiers in the video were almost certainly Russians.
The U.S. Justice Department said on July 17 that a 52-year-old Russian man, Maksim Marchenko, was sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling large quantities of American-made, military-grade microelectronics to Russia.
Russian poet Artyom Kamardin, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in December for publicly reciting verses condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has rejected an offer to join Russian armed forces invading Ukraine, his supporters said.
Ukrainian policemen urge locals to evacuate Lyptsi, a war-torn village in the country's Kharkiv region some 5 kilometers from the border with Russia. One local man has chosen to stay in the area and is feeding abandoned dogs that live among the ruins of the destroyed village.
Ten years after a Malaysian airliner was blown out of the sky over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, the mother of one of the victims says she still has questions. A Dutch court ruled that Russian intelligence worked with a Ukrainian separatist leader to shoot down flight MH17.
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