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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.
A Russian court on April 3 rejected an appeal filed by a 17-year-old against a six-year prison term he was handed in November for throwing Molotov cocktails at recruitment centers in St. Petersburg and Kirovsk to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 22 that its officers detained seven men in Moscow on suspicion of collaborating with the so-called Russian Volunteers' Corps (RDK) that has fought alongside Ukraine's armed forces against Russian troops.
A Russian documentary director was sentenced on March 20 to three years in prison by a court in St. Petersburg on a charge of distributing false information about the country's military.
A rights group has published a document from the Russian Interior Ministry about the cancellation of the Russian citizenship of Aleksandr Somryakov, a Moldovan-born man who was sentenced to six years in prison in April 2023 for publishing online reports about Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Last week, the Duma speaker proposed banning copyright payments to “foreign agents.” Earlier in the month, President Vladimir Putin signed a law forbidding advertising on so-called foreign agent media. The measures are in line with expectations that greater repression awaits in Putin’s new term.
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