US president and Ukrainian president to sit down after they arrive for anniversary of D-day landings in France, White House confirms
Russia’s supreme court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky against his five-year prison sentence on charges of “justifying terrorism”, Reuters reports citing the Russian state news agency Tass.
Kagarlitsky, 65, is a longtime political dissident and has spoken out repeatedly against the conflict in Ukraine.