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A Yekaterinburg court has remanded a cybersecurity firm owner and former activist in the opposition Anti-Corruption Foundation to nearly two months in pretrial detention for possession of the drug ecstasy.
A Moscow woman was thrown out of her house without her possessions and watched as it was razed to the ground. Her home belongs to a small community that is slated to be redeveloped into luxury apartments, causing residents to be evicted with little warning and no recourse. (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
A public transport worker in Moscow has told RFE/RL that all drivers of buses, trams, and trolley buses in the Russian capital have been instructed to stop their vehicles and make all passengers disembark if they suspect any of their passengers are from China.
A former Russian police officer told a court his superior ordered him to plant drugs on investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, whose arrest last summer sparked outrage.
A Moscow court has given an activist arrested over an unsanctioned rally on July 27 a three-year suspended sentence.
Plans for a new highway in Russia's capital have led to protests. Locals say the project cuts straight through an industrial site contaminated with radioactive waste. A state-owned company has blamed high radioactive readings in the area on faulty equipment.
More than 3 million Russians face foreign travel bans as of the end of 2019 due to unpaid financial debt, Interfax reported, citing data from the Federal Service of Court Bailiffs.
More than 100 Russian writers, poets, journalists, interpreters, literature experts, publishers, and other cultural figures have issued a letter expressing solidarity with political prisoners.
A woman has died in Tehran of a suspected coronavirus infection, an Iranian state newspaper reports.
A Russian regional court’s "heinous" sentencing of seven activists to long prison terms has ignited outrage on social media, with some people drawing parallels to the show trials of the Stalinist era.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a leading member of the Russian anti-Kremlin protest group Pussy Riot, has said a video clip whose production was shut down by police in St. Petersburg for two days in a row, was meant to describe her feelings when she and another group member were imprisoned in 2012.
A controversial order by Russia's Ministry of Education and Science that restricted interaction between Russian scholars and their foreign counterparts last year has been rescinded.
A jury in a Moscow court has acquitted a man charged with murder after stabbing to death a gay man that the accused has admitted to attacking with a knife.
A well-known Russian investigative journalist, Yelena Milashina, and human rights lawyer Marina Dubrovina have been attacked in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
Russian police have detained a person suspected of being involved in the 2009 high-profile killing of Russia's most notorious crime boss, Vyacheslav Ivankov, also known as Yaponchik (The Little Japanese).
The prosecutor's office of Moscow's Western district has apologized to Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov for his illegal prosecution, in a case that has embarrassed the city's police department.
A court in Moscow has prolonged the pretrial arrest of Azat Miftakhov, a mathematician who says he was tortured while being detained a year ago on hooliganism charges.
The Moscow City Court has upheld a decision to keep former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan in pretrial detention until March 29, pending trial on charges of espionage.
A worker is feared dead in the collapse of a sports arena slated for demolition in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.
Russia has reported its first two cases of coronavirus, as governments scrambled to control the spread of a new coronavirus that has already killed more than 200 people in China.
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