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Russia on Tuesday said it was quelling an attack in Belgorod, just over the Ukrainian border about 50 miles north of Kharkiv, killing dozens of attackers in about 24 hours of fighting. Moscow claims the saboteurs were Ukrainian, although Kyiv said it had nothing to do with the attack, and two separate anti-Vladimir Putin groups have claimed credit for the …

The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace announced on Friday it would be shutting down after authorities declared Greenpeace International an unwanted organization. A statement from the national prosecutor’s office said it had determined that Greenpeace posed a “threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation” and specifically pointed to the conflict in …