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Two Russian men who attended an unauthorized anti-government rally in Moscow this summer were convicted on December 24 for attempted assault and assaulting a police officer in a wider case that’s largely seen as a clampdown on political opposition.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny said that one of his allies was "illegally" drafted to the army and was sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move he said amounted to kidnapping.
Night shifts for ambulance crews can range from the mundane to the miraculous. For poorly paid and exhausted Russian doctors northeast of Moscow, it's a calling that goes beyond their low-paid jobs.
Russian authorities have launched a probe into the alleged bullying of a conscript who shot dead eight military personnel and wounded two more in October, his lawyer says.
Rambler Group, one of Russia’s biggest online web portals, has decided to ask law enforcement bodies not to pursue a criminal case regarding its dispute with the Moscow-based unit of Nginx, a popular web server owned by a U.S. technology company.
Czech authorities have deported four foreigners who were residing in houses used by the Russian Embassy in Prague, local media reported on December 16.
A cafe in a museum in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has stopped selling chocolate bars with the portrait of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on its cover after a public outcry.
A court in St. Petersburg ordered a Russian historian who confessed to dismembering his student lover to remain in pretrial detention, rejecting his request to be transferred to house arrest.
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said his successor, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, did not cross any "red lines" in his recent talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, high-level politicians, celebrities, and thousands of Muscovites bid farewell to former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who died at age 83 from complications after undergoing heart surgery in Germany.
Russia's state-connected TNT TV channel has pulled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's Servant Of The People sitcom off the air just a day after its premiere in the country.
A military court in St. Petersburg has sentenced a man to life in prison for financing a deadly 2017 subway blast, while 10 other defendants in the case received prison terms of between 19 and 28 years.
A court in Moscow has sentenced another activist accused of assaulting police during an unsanctioned rally on July 27.
Thousands have rallied in the northwestern Russian town of Kotlas against the construction of a new landfill for waste from Moscow.
Russian soccer fans staged stadium walkouts this weekend at top division matches over what they say is police discrimination that led to arbitrary arrests of visiting Spartak Moscow fans in St. Petersburg on December 1.
A popular Russian blogger has received a suspended three-year sentence for "inciting extremism on the Internet" in his calls for protests against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Yegor Zhukov was hailed as a hero by his supporters on the steps of a Moscow courthouse.
A court in Moscow has handed popular blogger Yegor Zhukov a three-year suspended sentence after finding him guilty of inciting extremism online in a case condemned as politically motivated.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a military serviceman on suspicion of spying on behalf of Ukraine in the Rostov region.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay compensation to two Russian activists who received prison terms for their roles in organizing a May 2012 protest against President Vladimir Putin and his government on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square.
Russia's OMON riot police have broken up a traditional martial arts tournament organized by an antifascist group, detaining at least 80 people, OVD-Info, a group that monitors protests and arrests in Russia, reported.
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