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Yevgeny Prigozhin posted a message on social media claiming Wagner troops have agreed to stand down and return to bases. The Kremlin said the criminal case against Prigozhin will be dropped.

The White House has said they are "monitoring the situation" after the Wagner mercenary group's chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, becomes more outspoken about the tactic's of Russia's conventional military

Backdown by Yevgeny Prigozhin came after Belarus’s leader negotiated with him to end the mutiny.

Vladimir Putin's whereabouts were not known when trucks full of Wagner mercenaries smashing through barricades which had been hoped to slow their march on Moscow

Belarus President Putin Alexander Lukashenko has reportedly been spotted fleeing after mercenaries from the Wagner Group say they are preparing to takeover Moscow

Modern protest movements, like the ongoing protests in Iran, often center around women who have been killed or harmed by agents of authoritarian governments. While it can be easy to chalk up this consistent, state-sponsored abuse of women to simple sexism, researchers say there is a deeper story at play.

The threat of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine is “real” and “absolutely irresponsible”, according to the US president, Joe Biden. He was reacting to questioning from journalists as to whether he believed Belarus had been taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons.

A court in Belarus has convicted a prominent human rights activist of “inciting social hatred” for her work documenting alleged police abuses against political opposition groups

Moscow would, if necessary, be prepared to deploy its vast nuclear arsenal - it has been said

For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with new arrests reported daily

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization has seen no evidence that Russia has changed its nuclear posture