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NATO’s secretary-general warned Russia on Tuesday that if it were to encroach into eastern Ukraine there would be “grave consequences” for its relationship with the alliance.

Russia’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday recognized the constitutionality of a legal provision that obligates NGOs to register as foreign agents, according to court documents.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had killed Moscow’s most wanted man, Islamist insurgency leader Doku Umarov, in a combat operation.

A Russian soldier shot dead a Ukrainian naval officer in eastern Crimea, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said on Monday, the second Ukrainian death reported since Russia took control of the Black Sea peninsula

Ukrainian side Dynamo Kiev have backed out of a friendly against Russian team Spartak Moscow because of the political dispute between their two nations.

Pro-Russian protesters who broke into state security headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk have seized weapons, and highway police have closed down entrances into the city, local police said Monday.

Britain and its Nato allies must respond to Russia’s “illegal aggression” against Ukraine by spending more on defence, the alliance’s secretary general has said.

Gazprom Neft has not been affected by Western sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea but is ready to move away from dollars in its contracts and to redirect oil flows to Asia if needed, the CEO of Gazprom’s oil arm said.

A Communist party candidate has won the mayoral election in Russia’s third-largest city, Novosibirsk, in a setback for the party at the center of President Vladimir Putin’s tightly controlled political system.

Protests in eastern Ukraine in which pro-Russian activists seized public buildings in three cities are part of a plan to destabilize Ukraine and bring in Russian troops, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Monday.