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Igor Shkurko, deputy general director of firm Yakutskenergo, had been detained over bribery allegations but the day after he issued an appeal was found dead in his cell

Mayor of Frankivsk Ruslan Martsynkiv confirmed that four-time kickboxing world champion Vitaly Merinov, 32, died in hospital after being caught in Russian gunfire while battling Vladimir Putin's troops

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that some of Belarus's ground attack aircraft have been upgraded so they can deliver nuclear weapons - the same day that Finland joins NATO

Daria Trepova's husband has said she had been framed and that he is "completely sure" that she would never have been able to do something like that in Russia on her own

Daria Trepova skulked away after handing pro-Vladimir Putin propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky a statue of himself just moments before an explosion ripped through the venue he was speaking at in St Petersburg, Russia

A "tyrant" father who was killed by his teen daughters will now be put on trial after his death following allegations he was an abuser who "systematically" tortured his own children in Russia

A key Vladimir Putin ally and head of the bloodthirsty Wagner Group has raised a Russian flag over a shelled-out administrative building in Bakhmut despite Ukrainian forces still controlling large parts of the city

Daria Trepova was detained by the FSB and Investigative Committee in St Petersburg, Russia, according to a statement on the departments Telegram messaging app

Two female suspects have been identified as suspects including Daria Trepova, 26, who appears to be on the run and a video is believed to show her walking to the cafe carrying what may have been the bomb

An investigation has been opened by Russia's state Investigative Committee, while analysts in the country have accused the Ukrainian secret service of carrying out the attack

Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok left in a perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018

Vladlen Tatarsky was killed as he led a discussion at a cafe in St Petersburg moments after he was handed a statue of himself loaded with explosives which blew him apart

Putin supporter Alexander Dugin, whose own daughter was killed in a bombing, spoke out about this afternoon's explosion in St Petersburg which killed Vladlen Tatarsky

Russian Vladlen Tatarsky, real name Maxim Fomin, was killed in an explosion in St Petersburg earlier today amid reports a bomb was hidden in a gift he received moments before

Vladlen Tatarsky, real name Maxim Fomin, who once said Russia will 'defeat' and 'kill' everyone has died in an explosion in St Petersburg after he was given a bomb disguised as a figurine

Vladimir Putin is said to be losing troops ever since he first drafted Russian soldiers into his widely ill-conceived war in Ukraine. Now has demanded almost 150,000 men be called up to join the war

Tennis stars from Russian and Belarus have continued playing at the biggest tournaments - except Wimbledon - despite their countries being involved in the ongoing Ukraine war

The case against The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia, could be used as a 'trump card' for exchange of prisoners with the US, a Russian lawyer claimed

The Ministry of Defence claimed to have launched the Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport on Wednesday March 29, and said to have a classified payload onboard

Vladimir Putin's soldiers continue to launch artillery around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - which is the largest facility of its kind in Europe - and could infect the entire continent with radiation in the event of a disaster

A group called Ukrainian Cyber Resistance name 41-year-old Colonel Sergei Atroshchenko as responsible for the bombing of Mariupol theatre in which up to 700 died

American Evan Gershkovich, 31, a Moscow-based foreign correspondent, has been held over alleged "illegal activities" and is "suspected of espionage", according to the FSB

Russian player Vavara Gracheva has had a promising start to the year and looks set to defect from her home country

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington

Vladimir Putin's soldiers continue to launch artillery around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - which is the largest facility of its kind in Europe - and could infect the entire continent with radiation in the event of a disaster