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Moscow (AFP) - Russian lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill to create a digital conscription notice system which could bar men from leaving Russia as Moscow's Ukraine campaign stretches into a second year.

For the first time since the cold war, Moscow has accused a US journalist of espionage. Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, was arrested in Yekaterinburg on March 29 by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The reporter, a Russia specialist, insists he was there to report on…

Kramatorsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian forces have for months been holding at bay a gruelling Russian offensive in battered towns and heavily shelled trenches spanning the eastern front line.

Wall Street Journal reporter was detained on charges of espionage, which are widely considered to be politically motivated

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had "violated Russian law" and been caught "red-handed," one day after the U.S. State Department officially designated him as having been "wrongfully detained."

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has formally determined that Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has been wrongfully detained by Russia, a finding that authorizes the U.S. to negotiate on his behalf.

Jailed Kremlin opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. is likening judicial proceedings against him to the sham Stalin-era and later proceedings that condemned his countrymen to prison or death sentences

Russian opposition figure facing up to 25 years in jail tells Moscow court he stands by all of his political statements

US officials race to verify intelligence cache and work out who posted it online

The blithe indifference of too many countries means Putin may feel safe, but history shows a determined world can prosecute evil, writes author and broadcaster John Kampfner