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Individual pickets were held on October 26 in Moscow in support of two activists who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms earlier this month for organizing anti-government protests in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don in 2017.
The Russian office of environmental activist group Greenpeace on October 23 voiced concern that Russia has again begun accepting uranium tails, a by-product of enriching uranium, from abroad.
A Russian parliamentary committee has accused six foreign-registered and funded media outlets of violating the country's election law before and during last month's elections to regional and local councils.
The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court decision to keep activist Yegor Zhukov under house arrest after he was charged with calls for extremism.
A charge against Moscow protester Aidar Gubaidullin has been changed for the third time since a criminal case was launched against him for taking part in an unsanctioned rally in July.
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.
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