Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against Ilya Yashin, one of the last opposition figures remaining in the country, for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian army, his lawyer said Tuesday.

"I got a call from an investigator – they are beginning to search his home," lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on Facebook.

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Several villages in Russia's Far East republic of Sakha are facing severe flooding following heavy rainfall, local authorities said, prompting a state of emergency in the country’s coldest and largest region.

The government of Sakha said the rains had broken structures around a dam and left a remote village in Siberia "almost entirely" flooded.

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The world's largest toymaker, Denmark's Lego, said Tuesday it would stop all its Russian operations, ending the employment of its Moscow staff and a partnership with a company operating 81 stores in Russia.

A Lego spokeswoman said the company had decided to "indefinitely cease commercial operations in Russia given the continued extensive disruption