Recent polls showed the liberal-leaning Yabloko could have won seats in the parliamentary elections next month.

Nadezhdin was prohibited from running in parliamentary elections in September. He posted a video from Paris, saying, "I'm alive and free."

Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks, including strikes this weekend on e-commerce warehouses, have undercut the Kremlin’s efforts to shield most Russian citizens from the war.

Experts said Vladimir Putin was unlikely to change course despite worsening fuel shortages and a sharp decline in the stock market.

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have halted fuel distribution in vacation season as Ukraine isolates the peninsula.

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have halted fuel distribution in vacation season as Ukraine isolates the peninsula.

After weeks of intensifying bombing of Kyiv, Ukraine hit back with a swarm of drones, damaging buildings and igniting an oil refinery.

The attack, the largest and most deadly to target the Russian capital region since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, showed Kyiv’s increasing ability to carry out long-range strikes.

The attack, the largest and most deadly on Russia's capital region since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, showed Kyiv’s increasing ability to carry out long-range strikes.

Residents of Tuapse, on the Black Sea, complained of an inadequate government response and coverup of what they say is a huge environmental and health disaster.

With the war in its fifth year, talks stalled and sanctions biting deeper, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ratings are falling and citizens are voicing despair.

Ukraine’s Emergency Services posted images of rescue workers trying to save the animals — in one instance administering CPR to a dog — at the clinic in Chabany.

Ukraine said eight people were killed as Russia launched a bombardment that included its largest single-day drone assault of the war.

The general staff said that it used Storm Shadow missiles, which are produced jointly by Britain and France, to hit a plant that makes microchips and high-end electronics.

As Washington focuses on its push to topple Iran’s government, delaying talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine, some in Moscow say the Kremlin must achieve its goals militarily.

Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s main foreign military intelligence agency, was targeted at his home in Moscow, officials said.

A U.S. official called the deal a by-product of ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war. It came as a key nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.

President Trump and White House envoy Steve Witkoff have said a deal to resolve nearly four years of war between Russia and Ukraine is close.

Russia’s Belgorod is experiencing the power and heat outages that are normally inflicted by Russian forces on neighboring Ukraine.