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A new Russian opinion poll shows that President Vladimir Putin's popularity has plunged and Russians feel "anxious, scared, horrified" after a partial military mobilization was announced last week.
Another Russian-appointed official has been killed in Ukraine's Kherson region.
Months after their mother was killed in an air strike on Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine's Donetsk region, two grieving sisters are struggling without their mom. Thirteen-year-old Kateryna and her 8-year-old sister, Yulia, are now living with their aunt and grandmother in Kyiv.
Russia-backed officials in four Ukrainian regions partially controlled by Moscow have announced the final results of so-called referendums on joining the Russian Federation, saying voters have "overwhelmingly" supported the annexation.
Russian poet and activist Artyom Kamardin, who was reportedly beaten and raped during his arrest, has been charged with inciting hatred over the presentation of his verses critical of the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine
Thousands of Russians have fled to Kazakhstan to avoid being drafted into the army to fight in Ukraine. In the Kazakh city of Oral, a movie theater is allowing Russians who can't find or afford housing in the city to stay there temporarily.
People in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan continued their protests against the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin last week. Videos shared on social media show Russian police using force against the protesters.
Many Ukrainians in the territories occupied by Russia are staying at home as they try to dodge soldier-escorted election officials forcing them to participate in a vote on annexation by Moscow.
Emotional scenes were repeated in various parts of Russia as mothers and wives sent off their sons and husbands to fight in Ukraine on September 22, a day after President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization.”
Amid Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian schoolchildren are receiving a new patriotism class that teaches them about the need to "defend the Motherland." But a few teachers have refused to teach the course. And some schools have received up to 50 complaint letters a day from parents.
Russian police detained protesters in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on September 21 as they gathered on a central square to protest against a partial military mobilization announced by President Putin amid recent Russian military losses in Ukraine during a Ukrainian military counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered what he called a partial military mobilization as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the seven-month mark and Kyiv has regained territory in a sweeping counteroffensive. Current Time reporters asked Russian residents how they feel about the announcement.
A Russian court sentenced a couple of self-declared anarchists to 21 months in a colony settlement for criticizing the Federal Security Service (FSB) by unfurling a protest banner at the agency's headquarters in 2018.
Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were scheduled to begin enforcing a ban on access to their countries for most Russians with EU visas on September 19, moving all four beyond the curbs recently agreed by all 27 EU members.
The chairman of the Attorneys' Chamber in Russia's Udmurtia region, Dmitry Talantov, has been accused of committing five crimes and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko visited the newly liberated town of Balaklia in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region. He met a man who said he'd been electrocuted by Russian interrogators and a mother who said her son was shot dead by Russian forces the day before their retreat.
Russia's Supreme Court has banned the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), officially recognizing it as a terrorist organization.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office has denied a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk that Russian teachers in territories liberated from Russian occupying troops had been detained.
Russians on the street say they are deeply skeptical about their army's sudden retreat in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, where they left tanks, armored vehicles and artillery behind, fleeing advancing defenders over the past week.
A local councilor from St. Petersburg who called on Vladimir Putin to resign says he's been overwhelmed by the level of support. Dmitry Palyuga, of St. Petersburg's Smolny municipal council, co-authored a petition calling on the Russian president to step down that was sent to Russia's State Duma.
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