A Dutch court has found three men guilty of murdering the 298 people on board flight MH17, which was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile as it flew over eastern Ukraine in 2014

Patriot, an autobiographical book Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was working on before his death last 16 February in a prison in Siberia, will be published on October 22

5.000 minors have been evacuated from Russia's Belgorod region, located near the border with Ukraine, following weeks of shelling by Kiev forces

The defendants for the Moscow bombing were brought to court with signs of torture: swollen faces, bruises and cuts, one accompanied lifelessly in a wheelchair; Putin has, after initially blaming Ukraine, accepted the jihadist element

At least eight people have been arrested for vandalizing polling stations before the presidential election that could re-confirm Putin after 20 years in power