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Anti-Kremlin blogger Alexei Navalny speaks to journalists and supporters outside a police station in Moscow, early on December 21, 2011. Russia freed today Navalny and other opposition activists after they served 15-day jail terms for taking part in an unsanctioned rally protesting election results. AFP PHOTO / ANDREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Navalny Aides Say He’s Disappeared Within Russia’s Prison System

Allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he’s been removed from the penal colony where he has been imprisoned since last year.

This pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin attending a ceremony to present Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia on the eve of the Heroes of the Fatherland Day at the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on December 8, 2023. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has decided to run in presidential elections next March, news agencies reported on December 8, 2023, allowing the Kremlin leader to extend his decades-long grip on power. Putin told Lieutenant Colonel Artyom Zhoga, a Russian military officer, about his decision to participate in the upcoming vote following an awards ceremony for army personnel at the Kremlin, state-run news agencies reported. (Photo by Sergey GUNEYEV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY GUNEYEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin Seeks 5th Presidential Term In Russia

Vladimir Putin has declared that he will seek the presidency once more in the March 2024 elections in Russia, a decision that may see him hold onto power until at least 2030.

of 2 | In this photo taken from video released by Russian Investigative Committee on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, investigators work at the place where Illia Kyva was killed in a cottage village near Moscow, Russia. Kyva, a former member of Ukraine's parliament who had called for Kyiv to surrender when Russian troops invaded the country in February 2022, was found on Wednesday with a gunshot wound to the head in a cottage village near Moscow. (Russian Investigative Committee via AP)

Former Ukrainian Lawmaker Who Fled To Russia Found Dead

A former Ukrainian MP who had fled to Russia after Moscow’s invasion has been found shot dead.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 6: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Department of Justice on December 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Department of Justice announced today that four Russian military personnel have been indicted for war crimes committed against a U.S. national living in Ukraine, the first of such charges ever to be brought under the U.S. war crimes statute. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

U.S. Prosecutors Charge 4 Russian Soldiers For Abducting, Torturing American In Ukraine

The Justice Department said on Wednesday that U.S. federal prosecutors have charged four Russian soldiers with war crimes after it was discovered that the men allegedly kidnapped and tortured an American citizen in Ukraine, immediately after Russia’s incursion.

An aerial view shows a crude oil tanker at an oil terminal off Waidiao island in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province, China January 4, 2023. China Daily via REUTERS

Oil drops on demand worries after US gasoline inventories swell

Oil prices fell by 2.5% as a bigger-than-expected rise in U.S. gasoline inventories worried markets about demand.

Paul Whelan, a former US Marine accused of spying and arrested in Russia stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow on August 23, 2019. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Ex-Marine Paul Whelan Attacked In Prison In Russia, Says Brother

According to a statement from his brother, Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine carrying out a sentence in Russia on espionage charges, was attacked by another prisoner in a Russian facility.