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Russia's central bank on July 26 raised its key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18 percent from 16 percent, promising further tightening due to the ongoing inflation, which it estimated for 2024 by up to 7 percent, while previous estimate was 4 percent.
The Russian Interior Ministry on July 18 added journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
The unified press service of courts in St. Petersburg said on July 2 that a court of appeals extended the three-year prison term of documentary director Vsevolod Korolyov known for his anti-war stance to seven years.
A court in St. Petersburg on July 2 labelled one of Russia's best-known TV journalists, Aleksandr Nevzorov, and his wife Lidia as "an extremist group" and ordered their property in the northwestern Leningrad region to be confiscated.
A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, on June 26 rejected an appeal filed by lawyers of well-known opposition activist and Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Skobov against his pretrial arrest.
Russia's Supreme Court on June 5 rejected an appeal filed by sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky against the five-year prison term he was handed in February on a charge of making online calls justifying terrorism.
A court in Russia's northwestern city of St. Petersburg on June 5 sentenced U.S.-Russian citizen Yury Malev to 3 1/2 years of colony settlement on a charge of rehabilitating Nazism.
RFE/RL spoke to one of hundreds of female prisoners from across Russia who signed up to take part in the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
Hundreds of millions of euros are being spent to reinforce Latvia's eastern border with Russia, but not all locals are happy with the defensive measures.
In addition to helping evacuate locals, Russian volunteers rescue animals caught in the war zone in Ukraine. Abandoned pets often have to be evacuated under fire, treated, and given a home. But the volunteers say their greatest success comes when they manage to return a rescued animal to its owner.
A court in St. Petersburg has extended the pretrial detention by another two months for an 18-year-old activist who is charged with repeatedly discrediting Russian armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A court in St. Petersburg on May 21 sentenced Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov to 14 years in prison on a treason charge.
A military appeals court in St. Petersburg on May 20 rejected a motion filed by Darya Trepova against the 27-year prison term she was handed after she was found guilty for her role in the killing of prominent pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, a fervent proponent of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Police in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region on May 15 detained Belarusian physician Uladzimer Martau, who is wanted in Minsk on extremism charges.
A 24-year-old man from Siberia died in hospital in St. Petersburg after staging a self-immolation action in front of a military recruitment center in Russia's second largest city, medical personnel at the Dzhanelidze hospital said on May 2.
Interior Ministry officials are quoted as saying on April 30 that 398 naturalized Russian citizens had been stripped of their passports after Russia adopted a law in October that allows for the move against those convicted of certain crimes.
Police in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region detained Aleksei Serov, a former fighter for the Wagner mercenary group, over the weekend on suspicion of killing and dismembering a 20-year-old woman.
Longtime dissident Aleksandr Skobov is being held in St. Petersburg on a charge of "justifying terrorism." The 66-year-old, who spent years in psychiatric hospitals in Soviet times, makes no apologies for his outspoken opposition to Vladimir Putin. And he has no intention of backing down now.
Russian authorities have launched a probe against two self-exiled pensioners from Russia's northwestern region of Karelia.
Police in St. Petersburg have opened a probe into the disappearance of a Chechen woman whose whereabouts have been unknown since August when she was sent back to Chechnya, where rights defenders say she may have been the victim of a so-called honor killing.
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