Niko Vorobyov

Anti-Putin ac­tivists try to slow down Rus­sia’s war in Ukraine and say they are will­ing to step up their vi­o­lence.

The dark­net has be­come an­oth­er, qui­et front in the war as Russ­ian and Ukrain­ian hack­ers, once unit­ed, drift apart.

The high-pro­file ex­change was a rare mo­ment of agree­ment be­tween two na­tions locked in con­flict over Ukraine.

Rain TV los­es broad­cast­ing li­cence fol­low­ing a scan­dal be­tween the lib­er­al Russ­ian op­po­si­tion and their host coun­try.

While some hawks ac­cept the de­ci­sion to with­draw, oth­ers are fu­ri­ous about the Russ­ian mil­i­tary’s de­feat.

Promi­nent anti-war and cli­mate ac­tivist Ar­shak Ma­kichyan, cur­rent­ly liv­ing in Ger­many, is now state­less.

The par­lia­ment has ap­proved bills aimed at fur­ther con­strict­ing the coun­try’s mar­gin­alised LGBT com­mu­ni­ty.

Russ­ian po­lice ac­cused of raid­ing hos­tels, home­less shel­ters and stu­dent dor­mi­to­ries in at­tempt to boost the mil­i­tary.

Pro-Krem­lin hard­lin­ers hail Rus­sia’s bar­rage of at­tacks across Ukraine and call for more.

As Ukrain­ian forces re­cap­ture the strate­gic city of Ly­man, pro-Putin com­men­ta­tors slam Rus­sia’s mil­i­tary tac­tics.