INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The past year has been another year of significant change in Russia, from drone attacks, cross-border incursions and the Wagner mutiny to
the arrests of journalists, the ICC's arrest warrant for Putin and Azerbaijan's takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh.Here is a look back at some
counteroffensive was underway on June 10
Kyiv saw some success, recapturing nearly all of the Kharkiv region and parts of Zaporizhzhia, establishing footholds on the Moscow-held
appeared increasingly uncertain and the Israel-Hamas war grabbed the world's attention, analysts were describing the counteroffensive as
arrested at the end of March in Yekaterinburg, becoming the first Western journalist to be jailed on spying charges in Russia since the
from abroad for a family emergency
entail more intensive diplomatic negotiations for her release.With Russia's conviction rate standing around 99.6%, negotiated prisoner
exchanges are likely the best hope either have to avoid years in prison.Wagner Mutinied and Prigozhin Paid the PriceAs the invasion of
Ukraine dragged on and the Wagner mercenary group fought brutal battles in Bakhmut and elsewhere, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin became
in the city of Rostov-on-Don.AP / TASSTwo months later, Prigozhin and 10 others were killed when his private jet crashed between Moscow and
Blogger Killed in Cafe BombingPro-war blogger Maxim Fomin, known by the nom de plume Vladlen Tatarsky, was assassinated while speaking at an
golden bust of himself while he joked about security stopping her because it might be a bomb
a million followers on social media, was one of a group of Russian military bloggers that has gained prominence since the full-scale
Petersburg, where Maxim Fomin was killed.Alexander Demianchuk / TASSPutin posthumously awarded Tatarsky with the Order of Courage for his
trafficking and four years for forgery.The War Came to RussiaBetween drone attacks on Moscow and incursions from across the Ukrainian
border, this year the war came home to Russia.On May 22, anti-Kremlin Russian fighters crossed into the Belgorod region in tanks and armored
attack led to the evacuation of 550 civilians, one known civilian death, and the deaths of at least 14 Russian soldiers
This led to questions about whether the Russian military was capable of defending the border from both locals and people as high up as
Wagner leader Yevgeny Progozhin.Shebekino, Belgorod region.Alexander Ryumin / TASSDays later, on May 30, residential areas of the capital,
over 500 kilometers from Ukraine, were targeted by drones for the first time
two drones over the Kremlin, in what Russian government sources called an assassination attempt on the president
towns, with thousands evacuated and at least 90 civilians killed amid regular shelling and raids.Ukrainian authorities have neither
confirmed nor denied involvement in many of the attacks
first Karabakh war in the 1990s, sparking the exodus of over 100,000 ethnic Armenians from the region.Armenians fleeing
However, shortly after Baku took full control of Karabakh, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gave a televised address where he said
response.In further slights to Moscow, Armenia sent aid to Ukraine, skipped an important summit, carried out joint military drills with the
commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova on charges of illegally deporting children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia, a war crime.According
to Kyiv, more than 10,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia since the Feb
24, 2022, invasion, while Lvova-Belova herself says that she has overseen the transfer of 700,000 children.An ICC press release said Putin
Prosecutor Karim Khan, President Piotr Hofmanski and judges Tomoko Akane, Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez and Rosario Salvatore Aitala on its
Dnipro River was breached, flooding huge areas of the Kherson region, causing thousands to flee and at least 59deaths, many of which were in
service claimed was organized by a Russian sabotage group and evidence suggests the Russia-controlled dam was blown up from the inside
Dnipro serves as a natural defense for Russian troops in Kherson, and the flooding may have inhibited Ukrainian attempts to gain a foothold
on the left bank of the river, which they could theoretically use as a base for further incursions into Russian-occupied Crimea.In addition
to putting water supplies in Kherson and Crimea at risk, the destruction washed landmines around Ukraine, raised concerns about cooling
at police, waving Palestinian flags and searching for Jews
Rashidov / TASSOver 400 people have faced administrative penalties for their participation in the riot, and up to 91 participants may have
contrasting Western support for Israel with its condemnation of Russian actions in Ukraine.Only One President LeftAs of Feb
presidencies beginning in the 1990s, but they have gradually been renamed under pressure from the Kremlin
presidency symbolized its loss of other federal rights, such as mandatory Tatar language teaching in schools, as Moscow has centralized
Political Technologies, said
