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France has honored Russian film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov by naming him a commander of the order of arts and letters, which was granted in recognition of significant contributions to the arts.
Russian law enforcement officers have raided the offices of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in many cities across Russia, according to reports and his associates.
A Russian journalist recounts enduring a week of intense interrogations after being detained in Iran and accused of having ties to Israeli intelligence services.
Moscow police have detained four more men over an unsanctioned pro-democracy rally in the Russian capital in July.
Aleksei Leonov, the Russian cosmonaut who was the first human to walk in space, has died at the age of 85 after a lengthy illness.
Angry residents in Russia's Volga River city of Saratov are holding a second day of demonstrations following the killing of a local schoolgirl.
A Russian court has fined For Human Rights, a federation of regional and local rights groups, for the 15th time for breaking the country's "foreign agent" law, which requires civil society organizations to disclose foreign funding.
A Moscow court has reduced the sentence of a protester who was convicted of allegedly using pepper spray on a police officer and later changed his plea to not guilty.
A Moscow court has ruled to extend the house arrest of U.S. investor Michael Calvey until January 13.
Russia's Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the Iranian ambassador to Moscow over the detention of a Russian journalist in Tehran.
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Jon Huntsman, has called on the Russian government to "immediately release" Paul Whelan, an American citizen being held on espionage charges that he denies.
In a far-ranging interview with RFE/RL, Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky analyzed the Russian president, spoke about the opposition’s prospects and Russia’s problems, and compared governing systems all from a viewpoint living in self-imposed exile for more than five years.
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.
The Moscow City Court has reduced actor Pavel Ustinov’s 3 1/2-year prison sentence to a one-year suspended sentence amid an outcry over punishments being handed out after a series of pro-democracy rallies over the summer.
A Russian gay couple have asked for asylum in the United States after Russian authorities launched an investigation into their adoption of two children.
A court in Moscow has released activist Aleksei Minyailo, who is charged with taking part in mass disorder during an unsanctioned rally in July, from pretrial detention.
The Moscow City Court has postponed a hearing into the appeal of actor Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for violence against law enforcement during a protest rally in August he insists he did not take part in.
The missing former chief of Danske Bank in Estonia, who was at the center of a 200 billion-euro ($220 billion) money-laundering scandal involving Russian money, has been found dead.
The Kremlin has accused the United States of violating its international obligations by failing to issue visas to a Russian delegation in time to attend the UN General Assembly, and threatened "tough" action in response.
Russian police detained three activists after photos of President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials were found on crosses at a St. Petersburg cemetery.
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