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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.
A man on a march across Russia who says he wants "to topple Putin" has reportedly been seized by masked, armed men. Aleksandr Gabyshev left Yakutsk in Russia's Far East earlier this year to walk 8,000 km to Moscow.
Russian film and theater actors gathered in Moscow to take turns holding a one-person picket in front of presidential offices. It was all in support of a budding actor who has been jailed for allegedly harming a police officer at a recent protest, despite video evidence showing otherwise.
Russian actors have held individual protests in front of the presidential administration in Moscow against the imprisonment of Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for resisting police during a protest rally last month he insists he did not participate in.
A court in the town of Chernyakhovsk has ruled that the coat of arms of the old town in Russia's far western exclave of Kaliningrad is illegal because it carries "elements of foreign culture."
A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has fined an American teenager for possessing 19 grams of marijuana, which the 19-year-old U.S. citizen said she used for medical purposes.
A 28-year-old man who fought alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine was on September 16 found dead with seven gunshot wounds on a stairwell inside a residential building in the Donetsk region city of Mariupol.
A gas-cylinder explosion has sparked a fire at a Russian laboratory housing one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of dangerous viruses.
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the 14-year prison term of a Polish citizen found guilty of espionage.
Russian actor Pavel Ustinov has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for violence against police during a protest rally last month he insists he did not participate in.
Turkey has announced that it has accepted delivery of all the components of the second battery of the advanced S-400 air-defense system that Ankara has purchased from Moscow.
A court in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region has sentenced a former officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB) to four years in prison on torture charges.
Massive wildfires are burning across Siberia. In the Irkutsk region, a lack of equipment and manpower to fight the blazes has left locals feeling abandoned by Moscow. They blame authorities for negligence and corruption.
Russian law enforcement officers have raided the offices of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation in dozens of cities across Russia, according to his associates and human rights activists.
A judge in the trial of Russian theater director Kirill Serebrennikov and his co-defendants wants to send the controversial embezzlement case back to prosecutors.
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