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More than 180 journalists at the prominent Russian newspaper Kommersant have signed an open letter to readers, saying the country "deserved freedom of speech."
An associate of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says he has been arrested and charged with organizing unsanctioned rallies.
Officials in two Russian cities have suspended or scrapped plans to construct religious buildings after a project to build a church in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg triggered several days of protests.
More than 20 men and women have been sentenced to several days in jail for taking part in an unsanctioned protest in the city of Yekaterinburg.
Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov says he was detained by police in Moscow on May 14 for a parole violation.
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane has unexpectedly turned back to Sheremetyevo Airport shortly after taking off, increasing concerns over the safety of the aircraft after a similar jet crash-landed at the Moscow airport last week, killing dozens of people on board.
Officials Russia's Rostov region have opened a criminal investigation hours after a gas explosion at an apartment building killed an adult and a child.
Russian journalist Sergei Dorenko has died in Moscow, Russian media reported.
A member of the Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot says a close friend of a detained group member has been taken to custody by Russia police without explanation along with her boyfriend.
Aeroflot has canceled or delayed more than a half-dozen flights that used the Sukhoi Superjet, days after 41 people were killed in a crash-landing at a Moscow airport.
Russian authorities said they have arrested a man accused of involvement in the brutal beating nine years ago of prominent Russian journalist Oleg Kashin.
Russian news reports say that investigators are looking at whether pilot error is to blame for the crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 at a Moscow airport that killed 41 people.
Russian authorities said 41 people were killed when a passenger jet burst into flames in an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, and that the pilot said problems started when the aircraft was struck by lightning.
At least 13 people, including two children, have died after a harrowing 45-minute flight on a Russian Aeroflot plane that was forced to make a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his counterpart from Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, in Moscow on May 5 to discuss possible steps to help solve the current power struggle that is crippling the South American nation.
U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed for a swift end to the "brutal repression" of the Venezuelan people, after U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido's call for a military uprising appeared to fall short.
A Russian administrative court has issued 10-day jail sentences against two opposition figures in St. Petersburg for organizing what the court ruled was an unauthorized May Day protest.
Moscow police estimated 100,000 people marched in the Russian capital to mark May Day and celebrate workers' rights, including many members of the country's Communist Party.
Police have detained scores of people across Russia as opposition activists, communists, and union members marked May Day with holiday rallies and antigovernment protests.
Mohammad Nasser was 10-years-old when he was brought from Afghanistan to the Soviet Union under a special program for orphans. Now he's fighting a court battle to avoid deportation to a homeland he doesn't know.
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