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Riot police detained dozens of people in Moscow following a protest on August 10 demanding that officials allow independent candidates on the ballot in upcoming municipal elections. Ahead of the sanctioned demonstration, police raided the office of opposition leader Lyubov Sobol and detained her.
Riot police detained dozens of people in central Moscow on August 10. Officers began clearing an area near the Russian presidential administration in the hours after a sanctioned protest, held to demand that officials allow independent candidates on the ballot in an upcoming municipal election.
Officials have raised the death toll to five people in a mysterious August 8 explosion and fire at a military unit in Russia's northwestern Arkhangelsk region, as a string of blasts have rocked Russian military sites in recent days.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has announced a competition among drivers of police vans that it says will take place in Moscow on August 10.
Russia has summoned a senior U.S. diplomat after accusing the State Department of meddling in the country’s internal affairs by publishing a map on social media showing the proposed route of an opposition protest in the Russian capital on August 3.
Russia has accused German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) of promoting unrest in the country by allegedly urging Muscovites to take part in "unauthorized mass protests."
Two people were killed and six injured in an explosion and fire at a military unit in Russia's northwestern Arkhangelsk region, the Defense Ministry said, while a rise in radiation levels was reported in a nearby city.
A Russian human rights group says police have raided the offices of three employees of an NGO led by Russian anti-corruption activist and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.
Russia’s Central Election Commission on August 7 upheld previous rulings to bar two prominent opposition figures from running in the September 8 elections to the Moscow city council.
Prominent opposition leader Lyubov Sobol had a heated exchange with the head of Russia's Central Election Committee, as it rejected her appeal and upheld the decision to exclude her from local elections in September. There have been weeks of protests at the exclusion of Sobol and other opposition fi
Russia has lamented a missed opportunity to improve ties with Washington during the tenure of U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr., who has resigned his post after just two years amid speculation he could seek to run for political office in his home state of Utah.
Olympic tennis gold medalist and former world number one Yevgeny Kafelnikov has joined a growing number of Russian celebrities and athletes to speak out against a police crackdown against opposition protesters.
The Moscow city prosecutor's office wants to revoke the parental rights of a couple that brought their 1-year-old son to an unsanctioned rally in front of the Moscow mayor's office on July 27.
As Moscow police respond to peaceful protests with increasing brutality, we filmed all sorts of people caught up in the violence -- protesters, passersby, and even a member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. (Note: Some people may find the violence in this video disturbing.)
A memorial to the victims of the Soviet secret police in Yekaterinburg, Russia, would be a place of quiet reflection if it weren't for the sound of gunshots from a nearby shooting range. Activists say the planned expansion of the sporting facility will encroach on an unknown number of mass graves.
Hundreds of people were detained by riot police in Moscow on August 3, a week after a similar demonstration in the Russian capital ended in a police crackdown with more than 1,300 detained.
A court in Moscow has sent four activists to pretrial detention for taking part in an unsanctioned rally.
Jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has filed an official complaint with Russia's main investigative authority in connection with an unexplained physical reaction that required his hospitalization, alleging that he was poisoned after being taken into custody following a recent Moscow protest.
Russia's media regulator says it will amend existing legislation in order to impose fines on British and other foreign media organizations working in Russia for breaking impartiality standards in retaliation for London fining Russia's RT TV channel.
A coordinator for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team was immediately detained by police as he left a Moscow jail after servicing an eight-day jail term.
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