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Umerov is not allowed to leave Russian-occupied Crimea while his trial for “separatism” continues.

A series of arrests and searches in Russia related to yet another oligarch in Russia has analysts wondering if President Vladimir Putin is “sweeping out” the “oligarchs’ club” before elections in less than two weeks.

Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded by enemy fire, one was killed by a landmine.

Ukraine says Russian-backed forces violated the ceasefire 20 times yesterday.

Meanwhile regime-allied forces have retaken a strategically important artillery base in Aleppo, threatening a renewed siege.

With school starting in the Donbass, the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is largely holding

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A prominent Chechen writer and former official has disappeared, joining a long list of others who have gone missing, only some of whom have returned to recant on TV.

One Ukrainian soldier was wounded by an explosive device, while the Donetsk separatists report a civilian wounded by a sniper.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed possible cooperation on Syria in a telephone call. Mothers of children killed by terrorists and journalists detained at memorial ceremony in Beslan.