Protests erupted on Tuesday after the National Bank of the Caucasian country of Georgia decided not to apply U.S., EU, or U.K. sanctions related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine when they target Georgian citizens, unless they have been convicted of a crime by a Georgian court.

The United Statesannounced Monday that a Russian national who had been living in Hong Kong has been detained and charged with smuggling to Russia dual-use microelectronics with military applications manufactured in the U.S.

After experts discovered that the phone of the co-founder of an exiled Russian media outlet critical of President Vladimir Putin's regime and the war in Ukraine had been infected withPegasus spyware, a media watchdog called on Thursday for a ban on the production and use of spyware technologies.

The British Government classified on Wednesday the Russian mercenary Wagner Group as a terrorist organization and made support to the group illegal.

The United States and the United Kingdom sanctioned 11 members of a Russian cybercrime ring behind the Trickbot/Conti ransomware assaults. These attacks targeted vital infrastructure and hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Cuban authorities have discovered human trafficking activities aimed at recruiting Cubans as mercenaries to fight for Russia in Ukraine, according to a statement by the country'sForeign Ministry (MinRex) on Monday.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged German and Georgian authorities on Wednesday to investigate the alleged poisoning of two Russian exiled journalists covering Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

American authorities blacklisted Wednesday three entities tied to a sanction evasion network that has facilitated arms deals between Russia and North Korea, arms that have been used in support of the Kremlin’s plans to conquer Ukraine.

TheU.S. Treasury sanctioned on Friday four members of Russia's financial elite and a Russian business association, as part of its efforts to exert greater pressure in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Despite international sanctions and the decision of five leading Hollywood studios to take a stance against the invasion of Ukraine and halt the releases of their movies in Russia, the latest Hollywood blockbuster, “Barbie,” was shown this week in the Siberian city of Tyumen, as reported by theRussian RTVI news outlet on Wednesday.

The United Kingdom announced that it has sanctioned Putin’s foreign military suppliers with the aim of damaging Russia’s war machine.

A court in Moscow sentenced the incarcerated Russian opposition leaderAlexei Navalny to an additional 19 years in prison, this time for extremism and Nazism, the Russian independent human rights watchdogOVD-Info reported on Friday.

The U.K. government sanctioned Monday six individuals tied to the 25-year sentence of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian-British journalist and political activist, who was imprisoned for speaking out against Vladimir Putin’s regime and his invasion of Ukraine.

The United States administration sanctioned three Malian government and military officials for aiding the deployment and expansion of the notorious Russian mercenary Wagner Group's operations in Mali.

Russian authorities sentenced Vadim Ostanin, an activist and close associate of incarcerated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, to nine years in prison for being a member of an "extremist organization," the Navalny Team announced on Monday.

Just hours after Kyrgyzstan’s head of national security declared on Thursday that no company in his country has violated U.S. sanctions against Russia, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against four Kyrgyz firms for doing exactly that.

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United Nations experts on human rights and media freedom havecalled on Russian authorities to immediately release American journalist Evan Gershkovich and expressed concern over the escalating number of treason and espionage arrests in Russia since the country invaded Ukraine last year.

The United Kingdom sanctioned a number of Russian officials believed to be involved in the kidnapping of Ukrainian children as part of Moscow's efforts to erode Ukrainian national identity.

A Russian national, alleged to be an FSB Colonel,wasarraigned Friday in U.S. court following his arrest in Estonia on charges of procuring advanced military hardware for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.