Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov isn't a dentist. But that didn't stop him from being awarded the Russian Order of Merit for Dentistry.

The US recently announced sanctions on import of Russian gold. 

Russian schools have been given a billion rubles to purchase state symbols to decorate their walls.

New material recognizing two Russia-friendly separatist regions in eastern Ukraine will soon be taught in Russian high schools. 

15,000 millionaires are predicted to flee Russia by the end of 2022. 

"In general, it has been calculated that if the right of nations to self-determination is actually realized throughout the globe, then instead of the 193 states that are now members of the UN, more than 500 or 600 states would emerge on Earth. Of course, it would be chaos. For this reason, we don’t recognize Taiwan, Kosovo, South Ossetia, or Abkhazia. Apparently, this principle will be applied to the quasi-states, which, in our view, Luhansk and Donetsk are."

– President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, at a recent forum with President Putin

The citizenship of a well-known Armenian activist is at risk after speaking out against the war in Ukraine.

Children born in the Ukrainian city of Kherson will now receive Russian citizenship, whether they want it or not.

A St. Petersburg priest faces up to ten years in prison for speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

A Russian independent journalist has published an exposé on Putin's "biomaterials."

"The Committee against Torture has been protecting the rights of citizens who have suffered from torture and inhuman treatment by government officials all their lives. Despite the obvious benefits of this mission, the authorities have been trying for many years to give it an alien and harmful outline... Apparently, the authorities are giving a signal that torture is becoming (or has already become) part of state policy and is not a problem. Here I would like to remind you about the Constitution, where torture is prohibited (for the time being)."

– Sergey Babinets, chairman of the Committee against Torture

The English language may soon become Ukraine's business lingua franca.