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Denis Baykov, an employee of the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, was fined 450,000 rubles on September 17 after being found guilty of violating the lab’s internal computer policies, RIA Novosti reported via The Moscow Times, citing a ruling published by the city court. Two additional staff members, Andrei Rybkin and Andrei Shatokhin, are still facing legal action. The employees were charged with unlawful access to computer information and using unauthorized computer software, RIA Novosti reported...

Dmitry Baltrukov, a 43-year-old municipal deputy for Smolninskoe in St. Petersburg, was fined 44,000 rubles ($758) last month under protocols on “discrediting” the Russian army—a stringent new law that cracks down on dissent over the war against Ukraine. It came after he and other deputies in the area called for Putin to be removed from power over the Ukraine war. Baltrukov told Newsweek that military registration and enlistment office workers and policemen came to his home on Sunday, where his mother was, to hand him a summons as part of Putin’s September 21 partial mobilization decree, despite him having no military experience....

“Yes, we are here at the Olympic Games. Absolutely by right. Whether someone likes it or not,” the statement said. “You need to be able to lose. Not everyone has that gift.” They said their country was a victim of “English-language propaganda” spread by “athletes offended by defeats.” For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. After losing to Russian swimmers in two races at the Olympics, American backstroke star Ryan Murphy said Friday that doping remains a huge problem in the sport and he wonders if all his competitors are clean....

Robbie Keane could soon join Preston North End’s Irish contingent, with the Lancashire Evening Post linking the striker with the Championship club. The former Republic of Ireland international is currently without a club following his departure from LA Galaxy and has been linked with clubs in Australia and Ireland. According to the newspaper, Preston boss Simon Grayson would like to add Keane to his squad as they attempt to push into the mix for a play-off spot....

Overview Colitis is simply an inflammation of the colon, and runners usually experience the condition temporarily due to the intensity of their workouts. Symptoms may last for hours, days or weeks, and runners are vulnerable because running requires the body to send oxygen-rich blood to the large muscles, a process that reroutes this blood away from other body parts, such as the gastrointestinal tract. The dehydration runners experience and the harsh movement of the body during exercise may also aggravate the GI tract, resulting in colitis....

It is the first volleyball league of its kind in India and is the brainchild of the Volleyball Federation of India (VFI) and Baseline Ventures Pvt. Ltd. In the first match of the league, the Kochi Blue Spikers defeated U Mumba Volley in a commanding display, winning four sets out of the five to start off the league on a bright note. The first set was won by the Kochi Blue Spikers 15-11, courtesy of strong all-around game from their attackers and blockers....

Okung prefaced a tweeted statement with, “Oh happy day!” and then said, in part, in the statement: “I’ve been looking forward to this day for several weeks and I’m excited to officially announce that I will be back to football as early as Week 7,” adding his thanks to his agent who helped him “navigate this unique scenario with the Chargers front office” and to fans for their care and compassion....

Putin is unlikely to suffer: his popularity is above 80 percent and he has formidable control over Russia’s security services and media. But the Kremlin called the challenge “a criminal act” and vowed to renew extradition attempts. British police are expected to investigate whether Berezovsky’s remarks violate U.K. laws, says a Brit official not authorized to speak on the record. The exile isn’t worried. “Britain is a free country and you can say what you want,” he says....

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, also known as HUR, announced that 144 Ukrainian soldiers had been released as part of the exchange on Wednesday. The same number of Russian soldiers were released by Ukraine, according to a post to the Telegram account of Denis Pushilin, the head of the pro-Russian separatist government in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. A statement posted to the HUR Facebook page said that most of the Ukrainians released would be receiving “proper emergency medical and psychological help” due to injuries that included “fire and fragment wounds, explosive injuries, burns, fractures” and amputated limbs....

Both houses of Russia’s parliament voted on Wednesday to back extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START. The 2010 deal limits the strategic warheads and launchers in the arsenals of the world’s two top nuclear powers and allows them to inspect one another’s stockpiles. It was due to lapse on February 5. The extension does not require approval from lawmakers in the U.S. and is the first major policy initiative between the Biden administration and Moscow....

Reuters reported that the prototype build for the stealth bomber—known as the PAK DA—has now begun, citing a report by the state-run Tass news agency which cited two sources “in the military industrial complex.” One source told Tass that work building the cockpit of the PAK DA—an acronym that stands for the Perspective Aviation Complex for Long-Range Aviation program—has already begun. The source said that the production of the airframe will be handled by a plant run by the United Aircraft Corporation, an aerospace and defense corporation in which the government is the majority stakeholder....

Stanislav Cherchesov’s side came into this tournament in their lowest-ever Fifa World Ranking slot at 63. They were drawn alongside European champions Portugal and the best North America has to offer in Mexico. It was always going to be a stretch to qualify, particularly with three points on offer for every team against New Zealand. How Russia fared against the other two teams who had taken a point off each other on matchday one was all that was going to matter....

The official, whom Russia declared “head of the Kherson civic military administration” after gaining control of the territory in the first phase of its invasion, claimed Thursday that he had been hospitalized, and that he was delegating his “authority” to his “acting executive,” Sergei Eliseev—a former officer with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). In a statement on his Telegram channel, Saldo said that following a meeting with the Kremlin-installed government of the Kherson region, the “minister of health” approached him, and after “looking at my appearance, began to insist on an immediate medical examination....

Rome has moderated its concerns about the move, which it is now publicly backing if the rest of the EU agrees to the measure, Bloomberg reported. There has been a push to exclude Russia from the secure messaging service used to allow communication among more than 11,000 banks and other financial institutions as part of tough sanctions for its military aggression. However, Italy and Germany are concerned that without SWIFT, it would be harder to buy Russian oil and gas....

“Early RU [Russia] goals were beyond their capability. Reducing the goals didn’t help. Now, RU’s defending in more places against a growing conventional UA [Ukraine] threat & an expanded guerilla war. UKR has transitioned to the offense & can pick where they attack; RU is now on the defense,” he wrote on Twitter in a thread. The retired general added that Russian troops on the ground have proven to be “poorly-led, ill-trained & with low morale” and that they were unable to execute combined arms operations (CAO’s) in Ukraine....

A day after Russia badly struggled on the apparatus in qualification, Nagornyy avoided risks in an unspectacular but solid routine for 13.966 points. The score raised his team’s total to 257.260, nearly four points clear of runner-up Britain, and more than 10 ahead of third-place France. Trailing Russia by just over one point at the last rotation, Britain failed in its quest for gold after both Dominick Cunningham and James Hall lost grip during their high bar exercises....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday condemned the “concentrated evil” of the Russian military on his visit to Bucha, 15 miles northwest of Kyiv, where scores of dead bodies littered the streets, many of them civilians. Ukraine has claimed that civilians in Bucha have been executed, raped and tortured by Russian troops, who also ran over their corpses in tanks. Witnesses have also told stories of soldiers—likely Chechens fighting for the Russians—shooting dead family members....

Johnson announced on Thursday he would step down after he faced a revolt within his Conservative Party following a series of scandals, the latest involving an ally accused of sexual misconduct. Peskov told reporters on Thursday that the government crisis in the United Kingdom was not a priority for Russia and that “as for Mr. Johnson himself, he doesn’t like us very much, we don’t like him either.” When asked if Johnson’s resignation showed a “failure of anti-Russian rhetoric,” which referred to the prime minister’s support of Kyiv and condemnation of Moscow, Peskov replied, “It is not for us to assess the rhetoric of the U....

Chernyak told RBK-Ukraine that Russian leadership is anticipating such losses, as peace negotiations seem unlikely. An attack Monday by Ukrainian forces on a base in the occupied town of Makiivka, in the eastern Donetsk region, left 63 stationed soldiers dead in what is the biggest Russian-recognized death toll from one attack since the invasion started on February 24, 2022. “According to Ukraine’s military intelligence estimates, the Russians will try to continue conducting offensive operations next year,” Chernyak said, according to an English translation....

The U.K. Ministry of Defense said on Thursday that in the middle of October, Russian forces were losing more than 40 armored vehicles a day, which is roughly the equivalent of a battalion’s worth of equipment. Meanwhile, over recent weeks Russia has been forced to turn to Belarusian stocks to acquire at least 100 additional tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. British defense officials said that the Russian troops “are likely frustrated that they are forced to serve in old infantry combat vehicles which they describe as aluminum cans....