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Demonstrators for the fifth in three months have rallied in Elista, the capital of Russia’s southwestern region of Kalmykia, to protest the appointment of a former leader of Kremlin-backed separatists as the city’s acting mayor.
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) has urged the Ministry of Education to cancel its order barring scientists and scholars from communicating with foreigners.
A French national who fled Russia to escape a 15-year prison sentence on pedophilia charges he said were “based on evidence that was falsified,” has written a book about his experience in a Siberian pre-trial holding cell and harrowing escape.
A Moscow police officer who authorities say was assaulted by an activist has said the suspect "does not deserve imprisonment."
The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Russian opposition politician and blogger Aleksei Navalny's activist group, says it has found documentation showing luxury properties worth more than 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million) belonging to the family of the Moscow State Prosecutor Denis Popov, raising questions over how such valuable real estate was acquired.
A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of an activist charged with assaulting a police officer during an unsanctioned rally.
A Russian court has detained a prominent historian for killing his lover and then taking parts of her body in a backpack to a river to dispose of them.
Charges have been dropped against a Russian physician accused of defrauding the state by misusing funds she received from the federal government under the Rural Doctor program.
One of Russia's most prominent human rights defenders, Sergei Sharov-Delone, has died at the age of 63.
A Russian man charged with assaulting a police officer during an unsanctioned rally has been remanded in pretrial custody after failing to win an appeal of his arrest.
A Russian activist who has criticized the government for the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014 has fled the country after he was attacked and threatened.
A dissident Russian journalist who once promised facetiously to return to his homeland in a U.S.-made Abrams tank, says he "temporarily" left Ukraine, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since fall 2017.
Dozens of women have held a series of one-person pickets in central Moscow to call for the release of their children, who they said had been arrested on politically motivated charges.
The head of the Russian Interior Ministry's Anti-Extremism Center in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia was shot dead in Moscow on November 2.
Prosecutors in Moscow have opened a criminal investigation into a YouTube channel called Real Talk over two videos in which a group of children ask questions of representatives of Russia's gay community.
Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the closure of a prominent human rights group for "breaking regulations" on multiple occasions, sparking outraged reactions from human rights activists and opponents of the Kremlin.
A Moscow court has relaunched an embezzlement case against Russian film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov and his co-defendants.
A court in Moscow has approved the Justice Ministry’s decision to brand opposition politician and blogger Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) as "a foreign agent."
A controversial Russian law on the Internet came into force on November 1 amid warnings from critics that the legislation is an attempt to increase censorship.
Prominent Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who helped expose the Soviet Union's abuse of psychiatry to silence critics, has died in Britain aged 76.
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