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A court in Russia on November 21 extended the pretrial detention of sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky for at least another six months on a charge of making online calls for terrorism.
Vadim Kobzev, a lawyer for imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, will remain in pretrial detention until at least December 13, the Moscow City Court ruled on November 20.
A member of Russia's presidential Council for Human Rights says the incarceration of Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko for using price tags in a supermarket to distribute anti-war messages could be "deadly dangerous" to the 33-year-old.
The governor of the Siberian region of Kemerovo, Sergei Tsivilyov, said on November 20 that his predecessor, who led the coal-rich region for more than 20 years, Aman (aka Amangeldi) Tuleyev, has died at the age of 79.
A professional board of judges in St. Petersburg has recommended for promotion the judge who on November 17 convicted artist Aleksandra Skochilenko of distributing false information about the armed forces and sentenced her to seven years in prison.
Dozens of third-country nationals are stranded at Finland's border with Russia on November 18 after Helsinki authorities blocked frontier crossings a day earlier.
More than 100 Russian doctors signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin calling for the release of a 33-year-old Russian woman who was sentenced to seven years in prison for using price tags in a supermarket to distribute information about Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry calling for the "international LGBT movement" to be designated "extremist" and its activities in Russia banned.
A Moscow court on November 16 sentenced in absentia Denis Kapustin (aka Nikitin), a commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) that fights along Ukrainian forces against Russian troops invading Ukraine, to life in a special-regime prison -- the toughest type of penitentiary in Russia.
The former commander of Russia's 6th Air and Air Defense Forces Army, Vladimir Sviridov, and his wife, Tatyana, were found dead in their home near the southwestern city of Mineralnyye Vody, Russian media reported on November 16.
The wife of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has expressed concern over his health, saying he is being kept in punitive solitary confinement in a Siberian prison despite having a serious medical condition resulting from when he was poisoned in 2015 and again in 2017.
Darya Trepova, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of prominent pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, pleaded not guilty to a charge of terrorism as her trial started on November 15 in St. Petersburg.
An explosion that occurred on November 11 at a gunpowder factory in Russia's Tambov region is being investigated as a a terrorist attack.
German broadcaster and author Hubert Seipel, who interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin and wrote two books about him, received 600,000 euros from companies associated with oligarch Aleksei Mordashov, who is close to Putin and is on the Western sanctions list, an investigation has found.
A Moscow court on November 14 sentenced Viktor Baturin, the brother of the widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, to six years in prison on charges of attempted fraud and forgery.
Former Russian police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in organizing the 2006 assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has received a pardon from President Vladimir Putin after taking part in Moscow's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has sentenced a resident of the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk to 7 1/2 years in prison for posts he made criticizing Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as well as the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia may charge volunteer fighters who surrender, desert, or refuse to carry out orders with a crime as the Kremlin seeks to maintain discipline on the front lines in Ukraine.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Telegram channel said on November 13 prison administration has been blocking correspondence from his wife Yulia Navalnaya.
Russian state news agencies published, then abruptly retracted a news item suggesting Russian forces had ordered a tactical withdrawal in a location of intense fighting in southern Ukraine.
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